Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. "Sure she talked plenty, she was funny as hell, but she'd shut up about everything personal. Maybe she was ashamed of something, of who she was, maybe. I knew she was rich right from the start. You see lost of them in here, rich kids. She was weird though, gutsy. First time I noticed her was when she takes all this real freak-show type stuff into the dressing room and spends about a half hour in there, and I'm getting ready to go in because for all I know she's shooting up or something...
...Another time she just up and hops on the back of this weird missionary-type freak's motorcycle and takes off for California. She's back in three weeks with a story about how he beat her up and raped her and left her for dead in a motel in the middle of Salt Lake City. After that she said she hated freaks--said they were mean bastards who'd steal you blind if you were stupid and kill you if you gave em' trouble...
Woody Allen's new movie, Sleeper, will be all over the country by the time this column is printed, and it sounds amazing: Among other things, Allen plays Blanche opposite Diane Keaton's Stanley in a weird version of A Streetcar Named Desire; Allen wakes up (or, rather, is defrosted) 200 years in the future...
...battles between tribes fighting with spears, clubs, bows and arrows in disputes over land, pigs and women, in approximately that order. A lingering appetite for cannibalism is suspected in the remote interior where Stone Age conditions prevail Witch doctors still thrive and sorcery is practiced. The cargo cults, a weird blend of religious faith and economic frustration, claim 60,000 members. They believe that they can acquire such desirable Western luxuries as radios and canned beer by practicing certain rites like assembling on mountaintops, where they construct mock airplanes and await the gifts from heaven...
Breezy should be an ill wind but is not-not all the time, anyway. It is affecting in its weird little way. Maybe because it is pleasant to find anything animated by the romantic spirit at the movies these days. Maybe because Writer Heims has a saving, cynical sense of humor. Maybe because Eastwood has an easy way with actors that is far easier, more relaxed than his fussy manner with the camera. But probably most of all because Bill Holden, 55, is still an astringent, no-nonsense sort of actor, and his old-pro integrity is matched...