Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game. He played to a tempo, tuning it, gaging it, then throwing it out of kilter to come in for the big one. He was a heavy hitter who didn't rush his points, or throw-away shots with chancy acrobatics. He played like a wolf stalking his prey, always the challenged, never the challenger. And he was 17 before anyone his age really could put up that challenge...
Died. Lon Chancy Jr., 67, son of Hollywood's greatest movie monster and something of a real horror in his own right; in San Clemente, Calif. Chaney, originally a character actor, created the role of the Wolf Man. But among his finest performances were Lennie, the clumsy, stupid giant in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1940), and the arthritic marshal in High Noon...
...Cried Wolf. Edward G. Robinson's superb performance as a 70-year-old man who witnesses his friend's murder makes an otherwise lackluster plot and script better than bearable. The commentary concerning old age and septuagenarian wisdom is heavy-handed, but the tour-deforce by Robinson is worth the watching. Channel...
When Shaw raves at her near the film's end, he seems to be trying to draw her into a moment of identifiable human emotion - acting as much out of his own desperation as the character's. Wolf Mankowitz's screenplay abounds with hock-shop Pinter. "Driving is really an art," m'lady comments, and the chauffeur replies, "More of a skill, perhaps...
...timing-wise, because it turns out that not a whole lot is happening in town this week. What you can do in the meantime is check out Jon Landau on Pop Philosophy in this week's Real Paper. And if you're rich and bored, visit a club; Howlin' Wolf is at Joe's, and good people are at the bars. Martin Mull is playing a show for WHRB at Sander's Theater, Heian, says a poster at Tommy's, has a gig at Currier House, and the Kuumba Singers will be at Sanders on Sunday night. Just...