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...Critic John Simon. Reviewing the new play Nellie Toole & Co. in New York magazine, Simon dipped into strychnine to describe the star, Sylvia Miles, 41, as "one of New York's leading party girls and gate-crashers." Streperous Sylvia, who was acclaimed as the prostitute in Midnight Cowboy, wasted no time talking back. Invited to the same New York Film Festival party as Simon, she piled her plate with pat, steak tartare, brie and potato salad and dumped it over him. "Now you can call me a plate crasher too," she said. Spluttered the garnished critic...
Right after World War II, the private eye replaced the cowboy as hero, in the eyes of the average white middle class man on the street. The heroic image had changed with the environment--increasing urbanization, progress, etc. But this didn't stop certain filmmakers from making Westerns. Ford and Peckinpah continued making good Westerns, but did it by altering their concepts; Ford by turning inward, studying "the American's struggle between self-destruction and life affirmation," to quote John Landau in the latest Rolling Stone; Peckinpah reacted similarly, by examining the end of the Old West...
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe is the cowboy of El Dorada. Chandler, using the West again as a frontier, with an unfamiliar lifestyle, offers a similar formula. Marlowe operates out of a unique, a personal system of value. Consequently, he is only nominally legitimate. His world is as moral as he makes it, but, on the highest levels, he is an intensely moral man. Marlowe is certainly his own man. He has codes of morality, justice, legitimacy. And he is comfortable in an urban, mechanized world. Even though the same essential things happen in each succeeding Chandler novel, the character...
...brood upon it. All true enough, as this book sometimes demonstrates. Not enough has been written about the cumulative effect of images, arranged for artful purposes, as in the great innovative LIFE picture essays like W. Eugene Smith's "Country Doctor" and "Spanish Village," Leonard McCombe's "Cowboy," and Mark Kauffman's mock-heroic epic of a Marine drill instructor going about his martial business...
...always acted alone. Americans admire the cowboy leading the caravan alone astride his horse, the cowboy entering a village or city alone on his horse. He acts, that's all: aiming at the right spot at the right time...