Word: hubley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot lacks inventiveness. The young prostitute (Season Hubley) who helps Scott in his quest is really just another hooker with a gold-plated heart. And a private detective (Peter Boyle) who also helps out remains an ambiguous, unfocused figure. The porn merchants and heir handimen are all stock figures...
...still puts-on the same morose face, until he learns to hide even that. Somewhat inconsistently, Scott begins to play detective. From a solid, straightforward honest man, he becomes a wily man of the streets, able to manipulate and deceive others. He has help from a young prostitute (Season Hubley) he picks up as a partner (this is all platonic--Schrader couldn't deal with Scott's sexual drive so he hides it). Led by Nikky, Scott beats pimps and thugs to a pulp, who then graciously give him straight tips. Scott's quest becomes less urgent and more professional...
Died. John Hubley, 62, innovative animator and creator of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo; during heart surgery; in New Haven, Conn. While working at the Walt Disney studio, Hubley contributed to many memorable full-length cartoons, including the lyrical Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia. With his wife Faith, he formed a production company in 1955; they made films explaining the works of Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that...
...Cabots and the Lodges. Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger appear as the opposing patriarchs, Ryan looking stunned, Steiger wallowing in mean ingless excess, a puppet dedicated to self-parody. Jeff Bridges, as a sensitive son, is decent enough- a triumph under the circumstances-and a newcomer named Season Hubley is something more than that. In the thankless role of a teen-age girl who is spirited off by the Steiger clan, she is fresh, sexy and very sprightly...