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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Adam Roarke

I just watched "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry" (1974) with Peter Fonda.  It's a rad little car chase movie with a hotshot, a scrapper, and a downtrodden recovering alcoholic as the team of crooks who rob a grocery store safe in a small town.  It's got long cars, bell bottoms and washboard abs (on the girl)! 

One man's face stood out to me during the movie: Adam Roarke's.  Introduced as this-



he blossoms into this by the end of the movie.




Lucas says he looks "kingly," and I would have to agree.  Wouldn't you just love to sit around, sipping wine across the living room from this face?  Apparently, Roarke was best known for his tough-guy, biker roles (info courtesy of imdb.com), but in this movie he is a man without many options who is compassionate to those in positions of weakness (women/children getting pushed around).  On the other hand, he sometimes is the one doing the pushing, so maybe his kind actions are just the result of a twinge of healthy guilt or remorse.

At any rate, dreamy.  It's all in the crow's feet (well, not really, but a lot of the appeal lies there for me).

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