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After donning five stars as MacArthur, Gregory Peck is marching to a different tune. For one of the few times in his 34 years on-camera, Peck, 61, is playing a villain. His role: Dr. Josef Mengele, Hitler's SS physician in the movie version of Ira Levin's bestseller The Boys from Brazil. Living in exile in Paraguay, Mengele, with the help of a Nazi collaborator (James Mason), is involved in a bizarre scheme to clone 94 duplicates of Hitler. The evil machinations don't faze perennial Good Guy Peck. "Being obsessed and sadistic...
...siren screaming, a grim-faced detective whizzes around a corner and tears through a fruit stand, sending cantaloupes flying. A dozen red lights and near-collisions later, he finally forces the villain into an alley and arrests...
...position soon becomes clear. To Goretta, null rejection of the defenseless Pomme exemplifies the way the rich exploit the working class. But, unlike so many recent ideologically minded films, The Lacemaker never sacrifices the integrity of its characters to its political message. Rather than turn Francois into a snotty villain and Pomme into a peasant saint, Goretta, an eyenhanded Swiss, attacks the system that victimizes them both. The movie's title, with its allusion to 17th century genre paintings, suggests the delicacy of Gor-etta's style...
...energy crisis, impassioned presidential statements about energy conservation being "the moral equivalent of war" and reams of statistics about the nation's gluttonous consumption of oil and gas, nothing seems to have persuaded the public that things are that bad. But casting the oil industry as the chief villain will not necessarily persuade people that the energy crisis is "real" and that they must pay higher prices in order to conserve oil. In fact, the move could have the contrary effect on public opinion...
What the Washington effetes have decided is that Jimmy Carter seized on the three-martini symbol as the ultimate city evil and thus the banner under which to rally his bucolic forces to charge the real villain, the expense account meal. If so, Carter's instincts were true. Bernard De Voto, writing eloquently back in 1951 about the glories of the martini, explained: "The martini is a city dweller, a metropolitan. It is not to be drunk beside a mountain stream or anywhere else in the wilds . . ." Like Plains...