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...continued to watch the game. The father politely clapped after each Harvard gain. The boy sat pensive, still bewildered as to why he hadn't seen a hot dog vendor in the stands, or why the stadium clock had ticked down so fast when the opposition was threatening to score late in the half...
Littlechap is a pip-squeak who dreams of being a Pooh-Bah. Starting as "a coffee-colored coffee vendor," he manages to marry the boss's daughter (Marian Mercer), and with the quickest of strides reaches the top as a national and international business tycoon. Along the way he accumulates a bevy of English, Russian and German mistresses, all played with great comic zest by the selfsame Mercer. There is less sin than smirk in these accent-prone escapades...
...Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found no more sense in Faulkner than in "the wop boob, Dante." He never understood the scars of the Depression and compared the New Deal efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt to those of "a snake-oil vendor at a village carnival...
Touches of Class: The color and upkeep of the Penn baseball diamond. The peanut vendor at the doubleheader. NBC television cameras interviewing Mike Wilhite before the Columbia Game. The "Star Spangled Banner" at Baker Field. The "Welcome Harvard Baseball" sign at the Sheraton Airport Inn in Philadelphia. Poker and sandwiches in a hotel room. Curfew...
...where we missed something. Less self-explanatory still is David Carradine's portrayal of the photographer-suitor, Bellocq. When he first intrudes on them the house madame calls him an "invert"--he begins to just hang around, looking less like a sinister voyeur than a dazed peanut vendor at a ballpark. The scene where he finally admits his love for Violet lacks both preparation and emotion: I'm all yours, Violet," he says--but Carradine doesn't seem to be all there. Occasionally he is testy and impetuous, presumably because all artists should be temperamental. But his fits express less...