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Exton reminisced about going to college during the Prohibition. "We went to Scully Square [a section of Boston torn down to make way for Government center]," Exton said. "If you asked for tea, they'd serve you a terrible red wine...
Newton remains part interstellar phantom, part earthbound Howard Hughes. He watches a dozen television sets at once. Newton is also a curiously vulnerable superbeing. He is intrigued by a Southwestern hotel clerk named Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), dogged by a curious scientist named Nathan Bryce (Rip Torn), whom he eventually hires and who betrays him. Newton plans to use his vast industrial resources to build a spacecraft that will return him to his dying planet, the tiny population of which will then be borne to earth. This idea does not go down well on terra firma. People in high places...
Died. Mitsuo Fuchida, 73, the Japanese Imperial Navy pilot who led the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that jolted the U.S. into World War II on Dec. 7, 1941; of diabetes; in Kashirhara, Japan. Six months after radioing his jubilant message of success ("Torn! Torn! Torn!") from Hawaii, Fuchida was severely wounded in the battle of Midway and spent the rest of the war as a staff officer. A chance encounter with a missionary in 1949 converted him to Christianity. He became a prolific writer of religious tracts and war histories, including Midway, the Battle That Doomed Japan, a close...
...humor. The only human emotion apparently familiar to them is greed. They cast the movie either with worn faces (George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel) or yokels who must have been discovered hanging around the Georgia location. Then they turned their attentions to having most of this motley assembly torn asunder by a marauding bear who is, in fact, rather cute. Since the bear seems such a regal, friendly creature, and since the cast is so ripe for quick demise, rooting instincts remain solidly with the animal...
...baiting of the '30s. He was from a rich family and she was a moneymaker. As things were then, a lot of the best people were radical, but they got lost on the way because of her moneymaking. It's a great theme. People getting torn apart by this political whirlpool, dismembered by the imperatives of American life-get rich, have everything...