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Nineteen seventy-eight was a tough year for tough guys in film.
Audiences responded to the puerile infantilism of John Belushi in National Lampoon’s Animal House, the pouty self-involvement of John Travolta in Grease, and the sensitive stoicism of Jon Voight in Coming Home, but where were the adventurers, roughnecks, and swashbucklers who made American movies so distinctive?
About the Author
Peter Tonguette is the Life & Arts editor of the Washington Examiner magazine and is writing a biography of Peter Bogdanovich.
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Nineteen seventy-eight was a tough year for tough guys in film.
Audiences responded to the puerile infantilism of John Belushi in National Lampoon’s Animal House, the pouty self-involvement of John Travolta in Grease, and the sensitive stoicism of Jon Voight in Coming Home, but where were the adventurers, roughnecks, and swashbucklers who made American movies so distinctive?
About the Author
Peter Tonguette is the Life & Arts editor of the Washington Examiner magazine and is writing a biography of Peter Bogdanovich.
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