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Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.
women writers, poets, artists and scientists spans the cen- Wartime Poland became Karol Wojtyla's pedagogue. The turies. To deny a woman her right to intellectual achievement ...
...But no...
...Jadzia Jgdrzejowska, who came within enjoyed it the first time...
...The Polish man is not envious of their achievements-one is not jealous of one's heroes...
...Rocky should get his shot at the title, so we were all pulling for Even Mick is there keeping the vigil, despite the fact that them both...
...Konopnicka long'before he discovered Henryk Sienkiewicz...
...He reverses Rocky's for- roles in movies like these...
...When the original film comes out, you dutifully land's Unknown Soldier may well be a woman...
...In that spirit, Stallone has made virtually to Rocky's fighting and a damaged eye which makes it danger- everything in the new film the same as it was before...
...his old trainer Mick (Burgess Meredith) can't believe it...
...The fight that Stallone wants for his At least poor Adrian (Talia Shire), his old girlfriend whom ending is an indiscriminate slugfest, something brutal, gory, he now marries, and impregnates, wouldn't have had to go mindless and beyond all belief...
...heroic women, of women who fought after the men gave up, who took up arms when their menfolk fell, 4.vho alternated Screen between defending the ramparts, caring for their families and cooking for the garrision...
...I never saw anybody hit the skids so insisting for a moment that Rocky switch back...
...The he goes back to emptying spitoons in the 3rd Street Gym...
...In the Warsaw square where Pope John Paul celebrated the first Mass MOVIES BY XEROX of his pilgrimage there is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...farewell Mass in Warsaw is another plaque dedicated to In agricultural Poland women worked side by side with men "Scouts who died defending this church" -a single alphabetfor centuries...
...amused to see a Warsaw policeman taking over point duty "Remember that Virgin Mother who knew how to be a cause from his female colleague: a click of the man's heels, a smart of joy for the husband and a careful guide for the Son in military salute, then a bare-headed bow to kiss the lady's hand...
...But for the Konopacka, the winner of the first Olympic gold medal for most part, the sort of film that gets treated to a re-make is just Poland...
...my review this week, I'm going to dig into my files and find With other grade schoolers Lolek probably read Maria that review of Jaws II , and Xerox it...
...moments of difficulty and trial...
...Fine...
...his stance, and between rounds later Mick revives the issue by Me, I'm moaning too...
...Occupied, war-torn, forever rebuilding, modern Poland has always had a large proportion A FEW YEARS ago an American wire-service reporter was of its married women working to help make ends meet...
...Books:FINDING WRITERS, LOSING MONEY T ms IS a whale of a book, four years in THE LITTLE MAGAZINE IN AMEBIC&: Burroughs, Corman, Creeley, Duncan, the making, with forty contributors, A MODERN DOCUMENTARY HISTORY Eshleman, Ginsberg, Kerouac, O'Hara, 750 closely printed pages, a fully anno- Edited by Elliott Anderson Olson, Zukofsky, and after them a tated bibliography of eighty magazines, a & Mary Kinzie myriad, a whole forest of singing birds hundred handsome pictures of covers and Pushcart Press, $25, 770 pp...
...given to such subtleties...
...Stasia Walasiewicz (Stella Walsh), "the fastest the sort that you wouldn't want to see again, especially if you woman in the world...
...And you write Polish history is also full of men who gave up their careers to your review...
...The ous for him to fight...
...There, he must have passed by two plaques side by creates possibilities of ever more important tasks for women...
...Why is it that the all, Rocky isn't an underdog anymore...
...go and see it...
...and bird-catchers...
...These what a stale, old-hat, exact copy of a movie.it was...
...side in the right nave: one in memory of the priests murdered bring in your contribution...
...first thing Adrian says to Rocky is, "I want you to win...
...together with the economic crisis...
...As a result of his celebrity from big fight he has planned for Rocky in the movie's final scene...
...So now I have to suffer through Rockyll, or The Come-Back Obviously the coma has now "relaxed" her brain too...
...little...
...man, the woman still a woman, they both happen to work as The stormy history of Poland is replete with the names of police officers...
...But then it ing sessions that have gone into perfecting it would be more turns out he can't read well enough to work from cue cards...
...Considering the is so far out of character that Shire can't imagine how to deliver movies Stallone has made since Rocky, he needs a come-back...
...Yet the poor, underpaid, Poland of Lolek Wojtyla, established in her first constitution ill-appreciated reviewer is supposed to come up with a whole the equality of her citizens regardless of sex...
...Rocky was a stumble14 September 1979: 501 bum ham-'n'-egger, part-time strong-arm for the Mafia, but he southpaw to a right-hander, then to confuse the champ, he's to was good-natured about it...
...But the change fast, not even in those 75-minute second features about boxing to right-handed makes no difference in the fight-the champ that Warner Brothers used to make...
...After thereby making the scene that much worse...
...In Rocky's case, it was his charm...
...As the fight draws near, instead of legend of Sylvester Stallone...
...The church and the mother, the two pillars of wives present here, and to all the women who are listening to continuity, of national identity...
...editors, and an index of over a thousand It is not strange to devote such a huge names which still does not include all the Robert Gorham Davis book to something called...
...But then the sequel comes along, except take care of their children when the mother died, who wept that it isn't so much a sequel as a Xerox of the original...
...Now I'm acts could not even begin to repay the political, cultural and handed Rocky II...
...She mumbles it with embarrassment when the time comes, But concocting one for Rocky himself is more difficult...
...So pertinent to the final scene Stallone has planned...
...He wants, in other words, back to work part-time at the pet store...
...To protect the eye, Rocky is to switch from a them to us a second time...
...In 1919, with most men away fighting off the advancing Soviet forces, the city of Lwow was defended by its THIS CRAZE for re-makes makes it very hard on movie remaining inhabitants: the old, the women, the children...
...The body was brought there from the cemetery of the "Eaglets SON OF SEQUEL STRIKES BACK of Lwow...
...It just ain't right...
...With this impossible, ham-handed tunes without wasting a. lot of time on the fine points of 'reversal on Adrian's part, Stallone simply knocks aside her moviemaking, like character development, narrative pace, character...
...he moans...
...It's all very contender who won us over by his sweetness was attractive ingenious, but any hopes we have that it might lead somewhere somehow, and the legend of Rocky Balboa got a lift from the are highly over-optimistic...
...When Pope John Paul II came to to women's talents...
...the title fight in the original movie, Rocky begins the new film You might think that Mick's strategy and the endless trainwith a $300,000 contract to do TV commercials...
...The sports heroes of Polish boys sequel...
...Once in awhile, as with The discovered Zofia Kossak...
...It doesn't pay as well as TV, anything so nearly resembling a story line creep into his but it would have kept him in grocery money long enough to be movie, and besides Rocky's character isn't the sort that's forgotten and really need a come-back...
...The whole idea of a heavyweight switch back again in the middle of the fight...
...involved in the film-not the producer, the writer, the director Resurrected after a century and a half of partitions, the nor the stars-has had one new idea...
...But the minute she comes out of the coma, practically the Everybody loves an underdog...
...Like his alter-ego Rocky, Stallone seemed to have Adrian had remained adamant against fighting...
...To get around the problem of the eye, disregard for character and plot were in the original, too, Mick devises an elaborate new strategy for Rocky's rematch although we might never have noticed had Stallone not shown with the champ...
...It was novel or charming in some way the only man who bested the Finns at long distance running...
...Through your creativity you take part Warsaw on his pilgrimage, his first visit was to the city's in the transformation of this society...
...You like it, or you don't...
...That Stallone should have gotten being in training Rocky finds himself in the hospital praying to make his movie was only slightly less improbable than that for Adrian, who's in a coma after giving birth to their child...
...when he read Boleslaw Prus he must Godfather, a movie is big enough and good enough to rate a have read Eliza Orzeszkowa...
...The line of Underdog, as it might have been called...
...Even strategy is also forgotten about as soon as the first bell sounds...
...The late arriving industrialization came almost ical list of boys and girls...
...The modern life style cathedral...
...Why complications, such as they are, center on Adrian's objections tamper with success...
...Pound, fathers, are hailed most often, then Bly, Quarterly...
...Didn't anybody think to says so-and Rocky sloughs off Mick's brief insistence he tell Rocky he could try being in print ads, where the customers continue with their fight plan...
...In the church where he said his my words over the media...
...It was a film that had something two games of winning Wimbledon...
...by the Nazis, one commemorating the women who gave their "The Pope's affectionn is directed also toward working lives for Poland...
...When Jaws II came out, I universities opened their doors to women as soon as they were obligingly wrote a fresh, witty, original piece pointing out not denied their right to do so by the foreign oppressor...
...sports hero-a black American, Jessie Owens...
...When it's time to turn in intellectual debt the nation owed to generations of women...
...and Janusz Kusociriski, lightly likable about it...
...COUN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
...But we were willing to overlook that...
...that, if you didn't look too closely, managed to retain its appeal Only much later did Polish youngsters acquire another male for the hour or two the film lasted...
...Privation, torture and death -many of you work in those fields that are opening up today knew no sex differences...
...Little" refers to number of Commonweal: 502...
...In the new movie one or two people who can act always get the most humiliating Stallone fixes this in nothing flat...
...The turies...
...tion between men and women...
...Nobody openly at a calamity, who publicly expressed their affections...
...More rarely, as with Godfather 11, or The French of his generation were three women and a man: Halina Connection 11, a sequel is better than the original...
...She knew how to remain A Pole finds nothing strange in the incident: the man is still a strong in goodness even at the most difficult hours...
...Stallone is reluctant to let would have to do all the reading...
...It seems that it was standing between him and the credibility-things like that...
...To deny a woman her right to intellectual achievement struggle for minds, for freedom, for survival made no distincwould be to deny's one's Polish heritage...
...The ring-side announcer does notice that Rocky has reversed "Whay'z ya dignidy...
...Enough is enough...
...This writers proudly listed by editors in the work itself first appeared as an issue of engaging personal reminiscences which Cummings and Williams, the god- the nominally little magazine Trimake the bulk of the book...
...Po- critics...
...Her ancient new review...
...The popularity of Rocky 11 makes me think that reviewing when he discovered the author of Quo Vadis he probably also movies is a waste of time anyway...
...In Rocky II the plot exactly the same ending he had for the original Rocky...
...a relaxed brain...
Vol. 106 • September 1979 • No. 16
