Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wallace because he's against this forced busin' and he's the only one who is." There's a lot he doesn't like about Wallace though, having lived for a while in Alabama under his high sales tax. He sees through Nixon; that China trip was a stunt, he says, and we are leaving Vietnam without having finished the job--plus getting licked...
Still, I never thought I'd ever see a Yankee pull off a fool stunt like that...
...Stunt Driving. Which is the real Gene Hackman? The decent, gentle fellow in Father or the raw, aggressive one in Connection? Answer: A little of both. Hackman retains much of the flavor of his small-town upbringing in Danville, Ill. Away from the set he spends most of his time lazing with his family in his Tudor-style home in the San Fernando Valley. At the same time, he has "an affinity for certain dangers." These used to include motorcycle and auto racing (he did about half of his own stunt driving in Connection), but now are limited mostly...
...night muggings in Times Square are as routine as the traffic, but one recent stickup had a certain piquancy. Two gunmen knocked over a movie theater, shot the manager in the arm and made off with $13,000. The theater happened to be showing The Godfather. A mad publicity stunt? Retribution by the Mafia? More likely it was ironic coincidence-and ill-planned as well. At the rate The Godfather is packing them in, the $13,000 loot would just about account for the weekend popcorn sales...
...groping failure, but a full-scale breakdown. I am hard-pressed to find reason for the praise and the controversy it has engendered. Kubrick has removed the book's human qualities to the extent that the only ones that should be bothered by the violence are the stunt-men's wives. He has transformed Christian anger into adolescent braying. He has made a hard-driving piece of sensationalist entertainment, but the only serious subject I see Kubrick able to cope with after it is military history. He's currently prepping a film on Napoleon...