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Truffaut's hero (Oskar Werner) is a member of the brigade, a pyromanic punk who sincerely believes that "books are just rubbish" and should be burned. After a hard day at the cultural crematorium, he cools off with tranquilizers, sits staring at the wall screen with his trank-tanked wife (Julie Christie), and sinks slowly into nothinkness. One day, riding home on the monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn...
...Jerome, Napoleon's youngest brother, a pretty-faced punk known as Fifi, was the black sheep of the family. At 21, when Napoleon balked at his marriage to a Baltimore heiress named Betsy Patterson, he blithely abandoned the girl-with child-and concluded an alliance with Catherine of Wurttemberg. As King of Westphalia, he employed so many mistresses and staged such lavish entertainments (among them an operetta performed stark naked) that the kingdom went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million...
...first place," he says. "And once there, you're hooked. You discover one thing, and that's never enough; you're always pushing back, and then back beyond that. Everything underground seems to ask a question. I've seen this challenge change a motorcycle punk in Los Angeles into a Ph.D." A cave's size or depth is not what attracts the spelunker. "There can be a hole behind any rock," says Halliday, "and often we get as much satisfaction in going 400 feet as we do in a much more impressive distance...
...survive he moved to Hollywood and quickly established himself as a character actor in the tough-guy tradition-a kind of punk's Bogart. Today old movie buffs still see him on TV reruns, barking at his moll, Gloria Grahame, Vivian Blaine or Marie McDonald: "I fought I told ya to wait in da car." He ran his luck through nearly 150 movie roles, but by 1941 gangster parts were declared bad for the image of a nation at war. As the clean-cut types moved in, Leonard moved out to the one medium where he could be heard...
...Booze." In the resort town of Arnolds Park, Iowa, the trouble began the minute the bars closed. Some 500 visiting youths poured, stumbled and fell out of taverns, chanting "We want booze! We want beer!" When a handful of police officers tried to quiet them down, someone shouted, "Hey, punk! We're going to take over the place!" and the riot was on. Armed with chunks of cement, rocks, beer bottles and splintered wood, they charged the cops, then smashed in the windows of cars and lighted a bonfire in front of one of the taverns. Police...