Route 66 - The Complete Second Season
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Actor: George Maharis, Martin MilnerBrand: Infinity
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1740 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: IEG2037
Studio: Roxbury Entertainment
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DVD Review: How much a pound is Albatross? even the title intrigues.
Summary: 5 Stars
"How Much a Pound is Albatross?"
Stirling Sillipant wrote this episode and you can tell. He puts himself in this show throw the dialogue of Vicki (Julie Newmar) and Todd.
The first image is a lone cross on desert hilltop. That's the first clue to explain the girl we see on the motorcycle.
In Tucson, Arizona, Vicki smiles at the police officer who has a bored look on his face, and then she runs the stop light. The police follows and soon a gaggle of policemen swarm around her. Our heroes (Buzz and Todd) swerve to avoid run running her over and crash into a window.
"You knew we would catch you" the police officer says. "I feel sorry for you, nothing to listen to but code numbers and peoples troubles. You looked so bored" the lady on the motorcycle responds. Her first meaning is that she felt sorry for the cops because they caught her and she's an Albatross and next she means she feels sorry for his hum drum life that probably will remain unexamined for years to come. Buzz is totally taken with her upon first sight. He knew exactly what she meant when she told the cops "I feel sorry for you".
They take her to the sheriff's office and he has interesting pictures behind him. The wall has a photo of what looks like a hanging from the not too old west of Tucson. The picture is juxtaposed with a photo of President Kennedy and what looks like a model rocket. The old with the new. The sheriff does not understand Vicki at all. He offers her a cigarette and she takes the cigarette and smokes it as if it's the first time she ever smoked. She replies that her name is Vicki and the sheriff says "Vicki what" and Vicki replies "aint that the truth". Telling you that she doesn't know who she is any more. Giving us the second clue to who she really is.
She's probably the first hippie character ever on TV. She has the beat nick style but she definitely is not beat nick. She's more interested in learning, discovering and sharing. She is not only looking inward she also looks outward and is just as grateful to share with others as to take from others.
She carries no papers. She says, "they are snapshots of who we were not who we are. They are by default invalid".
All men in the show who see her become smitten with her. The man who's window is smashed up seems to want nothing more than for her to smile at him as he smiles at her.
A shrink, Dr. Jane Bell, visits her in jail. No mess, no fuss, Vicki is just grateful to be alive. Her father and family had died from a boating accident, "let grief ride outside on a motorcycle on its own, let it try and catch me, let it catch shadows of its own, I left a trail of buried Albatrosses from coast to coast". Dr. Bell asks "how much a pound is Albratross" and Vicki responds "nobody can afford it, so every day I grow lighter and greedier for life".
Vicki in her leather motorcycle pants and nice top makes for lovely images alone. I fully understand why all men swarm around her.
Buzz wants to bail her out. He's still completely smitten with her as all the men around her seem to be. He places the 500 bucks bail for her. Vicki states "I have no money. I've never been in jail before. The pattern has been that people in authority just banish me to the next place". She has no worries about what will happen.
Todd puts up his Corvette as collateral for Vicki's bond for Buzz. Todd now has a vested interest in watching her.
Buzz buys her a dress for her court appearance and she takes 45 minutes to try it on. Todd asks Buzz "do you know what Parataxic distortion (check Wickipedia's article, it is very good) is? He goes on to explain that it's all the people that we bring with us to every situation that we're in and how it can change how we perceive what's happening to us in the now. Also, the scene looks like it had brilliant product placement since Todd holds up his pack of Marlboro repeatedly. "Vicki is in the bedroom and in our minds, so we already have four people with us. The calculating Buzz, the voodoo Todd and so on". It must be noted Vicki comes out of the bedroom and looks even more like a girl as she herself says. She tells Buzz a Zen saying and later you see how Buzz doesn't understand it at all.
They decide to go dancing. Vicki regales the boys at the bar and a harmless drunk comes up to them. He realizes that she's a princess in spirit. Buzz is ticked off. The drunk's wife hates the drunk and he has nothing to show for his whole life with his wife. All he has to show for life is expensive cuff links and a wife that hates him. Buzz shoves the drunk on to the floor. Vicki sees the drunks pain and at that moment she really wants nothing to do with Buzz anymore.
Todd and Vicki go bike riding in the desert. They run out of gas and are completely lost. She is not bothered in the least. They will most likely be late for her court appointment. The sheriff comes looking for them and asks Buzz where are Todd and Vicki. Vicki has completely mastered the situation and environment as always. She knows exactly how much water they need, how to proceed and the pitfalls of the desert. She thoroughly enjoys the new situation and harsh environment for the newness of it all.
She tells Todd, "suppose I were to be honest with you as I possibly could be, fooling you no more than I fool myself. Still, you wouldn't know me and I wouldn't know you, because no matter how much we cry for light, we are all sleepwalkers fumbling in the dark. Sometimes we manage to touch for a moment, than we pass".
The judge admonishes her when they reach the courtroom. He blames her for all of societies wrongs. He represents the old established order. She represents the new changes that are coming. The first time we hear her whole name, Vicki Russel, is when the judge mentions it. He mentions that she is a sole heir to a large estate. He finds her incomprehensible and bizarre and inexcusable and he goes on and on and states dedication to non-conformity is anti-social. I saw her crimes (reckless driving, getting lost in the desert and missing her court appearance) as fairly trivial. The judge goes way beyond her actual crimes and because she is rich she has even more responsibility the judge states. She tells the judge that she is rich because of the love her parents gave her. He tells her "if everyone did what they wanted society couldn't function". (Using his logic, I guess we all can't be judges, because who would be the defendant)? As predicted by her earlier, the person in authority suspends her sentence and banishes her to the next county. Our heroes drive with her and bid her farewell together. She appears in another episode. I can hardly wait to watch it!
Description of Route 66 - The Complete Second Season
Studio: Infinity Resources Inc Release Date: 11/04/2008Buckle up for a complete season of one of television?s very best dramatic series. You may be tempted to want to pull an all-nighter and drive straight through all 32 episodes, but it?s best to take frequent rest stops to fully enjoy this trip into the heart of America. Well-heeled Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) and Hell's Kitchen-bred Buz Murdoch (George Maharis) are back on the road, still "looking and moving" to find "a place where we really fit." Until then, as Buz proclaims, "It?s not the getting there that counts, it?s the going." And these cats go. Speedways and turnpikes? They?re nowhere. In Route 66, what usually happens is that Tod and Buz happen upon someone in crisis, like a Jewish boy who loses faith after his father is murdered, a terminally ill woman, and a mysterious woman who steps off a bus wearing a creepy mask. Most of the time, Tod and Buz are in this together, but sometimes, there is tension when only one insists on getting involved. "Can?t you leave one tornado for the weather bureau?" an annoyed Tod asks Buz in "Love is a Skinny Kid," one of the season?s best episodes. Route 66 was one of the best written shows on television (series creator and future Oscar-winner Sterling Silliphant wrote many of the second season scripts). The hipster dialogue keeps the Beat, but it's the compassionate stories that really drive the series. Tod and Buz are audience surrogates who experience America's diverse communities, from New England shipbuilders to a Midwestern Polish family. Route 66 is on the side of authentic craftsmanship, cultural traditions, and mom and pop restaurants where you can get "soup, salad, entrée, fruit cocktail, two vegetables, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" for $1.19. This season gets extra mileage from its premium guest stars, including Ethel Waters in her Emmy-nominated performance as a dying blues singer in "Good Night, Sweet Blues," Robert Redford as a Polish mill worker's college educated son whose homecoming is marred by tragedy in "First Class Mouliak," Robert Duvall as a heroin addict in "Birdcage on My Foot," Lee Marvin as a French chanteuse's violently possessive manager in "Mon Petit Chou," and an unrecognizable Martin Sheen as a psychotic gang member in "And the Cat Jumped Over the Moon" (with James Caan as a former gang member trying to go straight). That's Burt Reynolds in a bit part as a small Texas town hood in "Skinny Kid." Here's hoping they roll out Season Three soon. I can't wait to get on the road again. --Donald Liebenson
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