The New Hollywood movement of the late 1960s and 1970s gave talented young writers and directors to work unexpected variations on the medium's most tried-and-true genres. Just about every week brought something new and confounding to the nation's movie theaters (provided you lived in a big-ish city). As this cultural revolution raged throughout the tumultuous 1970s, the old guard of movie stars found themselves being replaced by the likes of Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and the late Robert Redford.

One actor who appeared destined for major movie stardom was Jeff Bridges; he possessed high-wattage sex appeal as Duane in Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show," but the co-captain of his lousy high school football team is a deeply vulnerable young man with

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