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Family Link. Mrs. Peters also disputed Khrushchev's recollection that Stalin had developed a passion for cowboy movies; she admitted, though, that she saw little of her father during the last few years of his life, the period to which Khrushchev was referring...
...Cowboy Movies. "Those last years with Stalin were hard times," says Khrushchev. "The government virtually ceased to function. Stalin selected a small group which he kept close to him at all times." Another group was purposely-and ominously-uninvited. Says Khrushchev: "Any one of us could find himself in one group one day and the other group the next...
...would meet either in his study at the Kremlin or, more often, in the Kremlin movie theater. Stalin used to select the movies himself. He liked cowboy movies especially. He used to curse them and give them the proper ideological evaluation, but then immediately order new ones...
...Noah Beery Jr.) sells portable potties which he describes as p.p.s. Fauss is constantly taking ludicrous spills on his bike. Halsy is forever scratching himself, belching, boozing, caroming off lesbians-all the while covering past and future with a threadbare carpet of lies. Sometimes he talks like a daylight cowboy, sometimes like an Okie Voltaire ("Once, it's cool . . . twice, it's queer...
...film owes its very existence to the recently successful two-man picaresques: Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy and especially Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But like a child aping an elder, it mimics the gestures and misses the point. The viewer can sense behind the film the search for a proven prescription. But such scrambles are self-deceptive. The movie business is too old to live on formulas; Little Fauss and Big Halsy evokes the repellent image of an adult pulling on a pacifier...