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...standards. Yet there is nothing modest about the man at the round table, his command central. "Captain Bob" coined by the press -- is a boulder of a man: easily 250 lbs., and 6 ft. 2 in. tall. His ruddy face is a cross between Leonid Brezhnev's and Robert Mitchum's. His abundant hair, dyed black, is slicked back '30s style to counterpoint bushy black eyebrows that can appear deceptively clownish...
...REMEMBRANCE (ABC, Nov. 13-23). Cast of thousands! Cost of millions! Makes Roots look like a sapling! This mammoth sequel to The Winds of War will spend 30-plus hours -- 18 now, at least twelve next year -- following Navy officer "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) from Pearl Harbor...
What can Bush do now? Pick Bob Dole? Name any movie Bob Dole has starred in. Even if Bush does choose an actor to balance out the Stewart factor, who will he turn to? Sly Stallone? Robert Mitchum? Stewart is Hollywood. He is the last of the great film giants, a guaranteed box-office smash...
...book's subtitle, A Life in Pursuit of White Liquor, is a trifle deceptive, calling up images of Robert Mitchum tooling down Thunder Road. Bunting is no stranger to gunplay and squealing tires. He once got so entangled in an electrified fence, a colleague remembers, that "each of his fingers had lightning bolts shooting out of them." But the struggle that really interests Bunting involves an almost courtly game of wits between him and the various owners of illegal stills...
...father who has been away 30 years returns to find he is resented by his grown son but is warmly accepted by his grandson. Not exactly a high-concept story line, but wait a second, here's the hook: father, son and grandson are played by three generations of Mitchums. Robert, 67, Christopher, 40, and Bentley, 18. Well, anyway, CBS liked the idea, and a TV movie, Promises to Keep, is set for the fall. Maybe blood is thicker than conversation. Grandpa Mitchum's remarks on how it was to work with family ("fine"), interest- ing points about the film...