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ROAD MOVIE is a pitifully clumsy yarn about a couple of truckers (Robert Drivas, Barry Bostwick), the hooker they pick up for relaxation (Regina Baff), and the interstate agonies of owning a rig and trying to haul your freight to Chicago on time - before the gas crisis. Director Joseph Strick has made several other films (The Balcony, Ulysses), although it is not apparent here. Road Movie is a shambling hour and a half padded out with highway footage photographed from the truck's cab. The woman's character is the most interesting in the film, though there...
They were produced at almost every social level of the young democracy, largely because ornament and design had not yet been wholly surrendered to either industry or "professionals." If, living in rural Maine or Pennsylvania in 1850, you wanted a chair, a yarn winder or a painted fire screen, there was a probability that you would have to make it yourself; the only other choice was a local or traveling craftsman. (By 1880 the mail-order and catalogue business was to change all that.) So folk art includes the minutely stitched embroideries over which the dutiful daughters of urban merchants...
...game's most attractive fashion plate since Gussie Moran flashed her lace-trimmed panties at Wimbledon more than two decades ago. Teeny lob-bers everywhere are mirroring the "Chrissie look": gold loop earrings, modishly cut tennis frocks, long hair parted in the middle and tied back with colored yarn, and-look Ma!-a two-handed backhand. The Chris Evert line of Puritan Tennis outfits, frilly, form-fitting tennis togs splashed with pastels, makes the squarish whites of old look like straitjackets. Now, with the figure to complement the filigree, she has erased forever the "little Chrissie" sobriquet. Still...
...Scapegrace's editor), this yarn is a thorough, almost scholarly pastiche of Victorian lingo and manners. It fairly reeks of historical authenticity-and of blood-for Flashman, in his early 30s, is still his old bully self, a lucky coward and a genial sadist...
...hands of Bogdanovich and his scenarist, the material is gutted of charm. It becomes a sort of attenuated general-store yarn about a bunko artist named Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) and a nine-year-old girl, Addie (played by O'Neal's daughter Tatum), who team up to fleece the citizens of Kansas and Missouri. The relationship between the older man and the girl, who may or may not be father and daughter, is grudgingly respectful and guardedly affectionate. They start off trying to fox and swindle each other, and the girl actually runs an elaborate...