Movie corner: I had a good time watching ”˜Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”™

By HOWARD McQUITTER II

Howard McQuitter

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Drama/Comedy

The year is 1969. Vietnam, hippies, Black Panthers, marijuana, campus demonstrations, Stonewall riots, robust middle-class, man landing on the moon, white flight anywhere but where the blacks, soul music and Afros. Republican President Richard Nixon”™s first term telling the American people to stay clear of the leftists on American campuses. Pope Paul VI declares an ersatz new liturgy (mostly in vernacular languages) for the Catholic Church. A historical music event called Woodstock drawing thousands of youth to upper state New York to hear the best of rock- country- soul music.

Director Quentin Tarantino brings authenticity to the year 1969, in his ninth installment “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” It”™s summer in Tarantino”™s Hollywood starting with an aging television and film star Rick Dalton (Leonardo Di Capri) is rapidly becoming a has-been Western television star. It seems his great success in the once popular television Western “Bounty Law” is now just re-runs. Dalton, though, still has the appetite to get his mojo back and he asks for advice from producer Marvin Schwarzs (Al Pacino) who tells him to go to Italy to act in Spaghetti Westerns. He takes the producer”™s advice acting in several Westerns there and when he returns to California he has a bride on his arm.… Read the rest “Movie corner: I had a good time watching ”˜Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”™”