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...that reckons without the third woman (Janice Rule), a painter of weird murals and wife of the sometime stunt man who owns the apartment house where the others live and the tumbledown roadhouse where they drink. Her work, her silences and solitude, more obviously-and less interestingly-symbolize a sterility similar to that of the younger women. In the end, the women dispose of the stunt man (who has had all three of them) and are seen to be forming a sort of feminine trinity -mother, daughter and granddaughter. They seem at once mad and serene. Maybe Altman is exorcising...
Novelist James Welch, 34, neatly juggles despair and hope; the book's sur faces convey both a sad seediness and a tumbledown vitality. Himself an Indian (Blackfoot and Gros Ventre), Welch lives on a 40-acre farm outside Missoula, Mont., where he is now at work on a second novel. Whites, he feels, tend to be too sympathetic or too harsh when they write about Indians. "We don't have those obstacles. To us, being an In dian is home." With remarkable force, Winter in the Blood brings its experiences home to others. Its prose...
...month spin as a disc jockey, spent two years as host of a daytime TV comedy show and wrote songs for films like Georgy Girl and Shalako. He also played a variety of antic characters in 13 films in the Carry On ... series, and there he perfected his tumbledown, knockabout maneuvers. "Falling is an art," he says. "It's a matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will take the fall best. Otherwise you smash yourself badly." In fact, he has. In a London repertory performance of Scapino last year, he missed his Tarzan-like...
Gutsy Oldsters. The new emporiums bear little resemblance to the tumbledown, teen-age hangouts of the '40s. They have psychedelic curving walls, neon lights and screaming stereo sound. Many rollerdromes are equipped with game rooms, dance floors, and pro shops that sell skates and carrying cases on easy-payment "rollaway" plans. Admission averages between $1.25 and $1.50, plus 75? to rent a pair of tan leather precision skates...
...TRIPLE ECHO finds Glenda Jackson waiting out World War II on a tumbledown farm deep in the English countryside. Her husband is a P.O.W. in Japan, so she takes a lover, a young soldier (Brian Deacon) who so enjoys her company and so dislikes the army that he deserts. To explain his presence to the curious townspeople, and to thwart suspicion in general, Jackson dresses her lover up as her sister and has him doing the chores in drag. He resists at first, but then comes to like it a little, enough to accept a Christmas-dance date with...