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...black Volvo station wagon outfitted with flashing blue lights, the interior littered with cans and bits of trash. But its name is Black Shampoo, and it is the pride and joy of Joshua I. Weiner...
...election could be settled on the field of honor. A punt, pass and kick contest? Basketball, one on one? Or something a little less wholesome. What about chicken? We could put Gore at the wheel of a 1972 Volvo station wagon and Bush in a 1974 Camaro, and point them toward one another at 130 mph down a long straightaway of the interstate in Miami-Dade. The guy who veers off at the last instant loses the election. It would save a fortune in lawyers' fees...
...thoughts: First, John McCain tried this, and his wagon went off a cliff. Second, with all due respect, 3% of the vote doesn't signal a revolution, nor does it transform leadership. And here is where you wonder why a guy with 40 years of effective cage rattling to his credit would marginalize himself by jumping into the cage...
...Lewis began as a journeyman director (sample titles: "Blazing Six Shooters," "Bombs Over Burma"). He let the nondescript nature of his assignments serve as a springboard for experimentation, framing shots in the most unconventional ways - and thus "Wagon Wheel Joe" was born. Lewis told Peter Bogdanovich in an interview that appears in the book "Who the Devil Made It," I thought to myself 'How can I distract the audience from this... I put a wagon wheel in front of the camera; you looked at it - it was an artistic shot - and before you could analyze the scene, it was over...
...long flashback, to explain how Hayden got into this strange predicament. "Terror" is not Lewis's finest western, but it does stand as a fitting conclusion to his body of work. You see, there's this one oblique view of the town's main street and a big wagon wheel is prominently placed in the frame... Intended, one assumes, as a final farewell to the craft Joseph H. Lewis loved so well...