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...does not look like at first a likely candidate for greatness either. There is a little bit of shaggy dog about his longish brown hair and moustache, and his burly build reminds one of his days as a stone cutter--he made grave stones, like little Oskar in The Tin Drum--and as a sculptor, before he began to write. He deliberately rolls a cigarette while answering questions, and his time on the campaign trail for Brandt's socialists has taught him not exactly to dodge difficult questions but to slip almost unnoticeable away from them--like maybe a snail...
...attempts to buck the system make him something of a charming Christ figure to his fellow prisoners. Unfortunately, Pontius Pilate has always had the last laugh in this kind of Christian symbolism, and resurrection wasn't written into the script. If you liked Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, you won't want to miss this. The supporting cast is good too, with George Kennedy in an Oscar winning performance. Try to see this in color; some of the images will lose their power in black and white. 9:00 on Channel...
...names: glitter makeup, an electric Afro pierced by a long-stemmed rose, extremely low-cut dungarees with two suspenders to cover the nipples. The gay and transvestite crowds attracted by performers like Alice Cooper and David Bowie have included one fan dressed as a ladybug and another as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Indeed, so bizarre is the show on the sidewalk that it produces another kind of damage problem: distracted motorists driving past the hotel have an average of six collisions a month...
...When I first started tin April], the New York State Employment Office told me it was too soon," she says, "but when I went back in May, they told me that all the summer jobs had been taken...
...dancers parading engagingly as boxers--gloves, helmet, Everlast. The political cabarets have become almost purely theaters, and the shows are tame; one has closed down to become a children's theater. One laughs at jokes about the Nazis; nowhere is there anything resembling Gunter Grass' famous description in The Tin Drum of the "Onion Cellar," where patrons are served with onions, knife, and cutting board, and aroused by weepy music...