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WHITE LIGHTNING concerns a good old boy named Gator McKluskey (Burt Reynolds) who is serving time in the Arkansas pen for messing around with illegal liquor. Word reaches him that his younger brother has been murdered by a local sheriff (Ned Beatty), who has been getting a substantial skim off the moonshine profits. McKluskey turns state's evidence in order to get himself out of prison and get the goods on the sheriff. There is grim melodrama and folk comedy here, but Screenwriter William Norton sloughs off the more serious themes of an informer working inside a situation...
...clock guard in Widener Library to protect the books and catalog. Early this year, when The Crimson held its centennial celebration a Crimson editor from the Class of '70 sent his check for the dinner with a note on embossed stationary from Washington magazine where he works. In fountain pen script, the note started: "My wife, Debbie, and I..." The turnabout is complete...
...with a 24mm lens he had just bought, which seemed to some editors, including myself, to be the best thing about them. The lens. The pictures took a lot of flak. After the results were in, one of his subjects scrawled in large letters with a light blue marking pen a defense of the pics...
...reviewers. Dame Rebecca West should know. She was Wells' mistress from 1912 to 1922 and is the mother of one of his sons, Novelist Anthony West. "As a general rule, it was he who was discarded," she wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph. A balky new fountain pen could quickly plunge him into a temper tantrum. "Scenes like this, and not exceptional and shocking depravity, accounted for the number of women in Wells' life...
...piney woods, Dean thought about the carefully planned Watergate cover-up that was coming apart. Even worse, he suspected that he was marked out as the "fall guy." Finally, he sat down in the rustic cottage and began to write. As he later told a friend: "The pen wouldn't write the 'fairy tale' they wanted. It kept spelling out the truth." In despair, he threw down his pen and declared...