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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sports would seem to be an ideal subject for movies. They are fast, colorful, suspenseful and sometimes violent. Yet they generally come out looking forced and fake, because they are used as a background for some trite melodrama. Football players lose their power on the field because their wives are frigid (Number One); drivers louse up on the racing track because their women are fickle (Winning); fighters sell out under the influence of booze, dames and the mob (Golden...
...latest, and by no means least impersonation is by James Garner in Marlowe. Bogart is a tough act to follow, and none of the other Marlowes ever matched his blend of soluble morals and incorruptible conscience. Yet of all the Marlowes, Garner is physically closest to the invulnerable knight who could get sapped in the morning and crack a joke and a case by lunchtime...
...forged papers proved him to be Jan Overbeek, a 17-year-old Dutch laborer with an Austrian mother. At first, he recalls, "I spent most of my time studying my face in the mirror. I was Jan Overbeek, yes. But I didn't look like him. Not yet. My nose is straight, as straight as Hitler's, but there was something wrong with my eyes. Not the sight, but the expression. The Germans thought the Jew is attached to his nose-the Jew was in the eyes...
Novels about nuns, even if the holy ladies drive Jeeps and play baseball, have a hard time making it. When the nuns are members of a contemplative order, the outlook is bleak indeed. Yet this chronicle of 15 years in an English monastery is an immensely readable book, partly because the way of life detailed here proves as exotic and medieval as Cosa Nostra society, partly because the story moves briskly forward, with only a few lapses into melodrama...
...rally in front of the Justice Department to protest the federal prosecution of the "Chicago Eight." Boston's November Action Coalition and RYM-I will demonstrate there. Police have not yet granted a permit for the march to the Justice Department...