Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frenetic Pace. The redoubtable Justice shot down the notion that he might give up if he could not walk by summer. "Walking," he said, "has very little to do with ability to discharge the duties of the court." Resignation, he added, has "never entered my mind...
...Risky Walk. Using the film as his opening, Handler went on to make a strong plea for cooperation in space. He explained how much easier rescues would be if the two space powers developed a common docking mechanism. In Marooned, the cosmonaut had to leave his ship and take a risky "space walk" before he could deliver oxygen to the Americans. The point was not lost on the Russians, who then were having trouble with their Soyuz spacecraft. They promised Handler they would recommend the idea to their political leaders...
Movies are the most accidental of arts, and we are lucky if we can walk away from many of them with minor brain damage. Very occasionally, however, the accidents are lucky ones. For example, when Richard Lester and friends got to making a new version of The Three Musketeers a couple of years back, they quickly realized that someone had blundered. There was too much script, and Lester himself had too many funny ideas to be contained in a single movie of less than Gone With the Wind proportions. Here shrewd calculation entered. The producers chopped the thing...
...walk or the clothes. When I played Sonny, I remembered this guy who always talked as if he were in the next room from you." The role then takes over Jimmy. During The Godfather filming, he set his mother's eyes rolling with orders like...
...Time's passing," he says moodily, and he knows that in one respect he is not moving with it. He is hung up on women's looks. "I want companionship, a woman I can be friends with. But I still want beautiful friends. You don't walk into a room and think of a brain sitting in your lap." His current girl, Model Connie Kreski, is "a terrific woman but not my friend." He adds, as if to set things right, "Not that I want her to box with me." Luckily, Connie does not want marriage either...