![]() But it was Garfunkel, with only Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge to recommend him, and Russell, a 21-year-old ingenue, who were plunged into Bad Timing's heart. Keitel, as the detective who investigates the truth so hard that at one point he seems to hallucinate the facts, and Elliott, beginning a decade of despairingly noble roles as Russell's wry cuckold, were perfect. Next, Roeg mixed the acting elements that would combust in this border zone. To be in a place with so many strange rules and so many dangers, so many police and spies - all that was in the film." ![]() "It was an unstable city, a border city, only just handed back from the Russians. You cannot intellectualise yourself out of obsession. "It was about the fact that you cannot intellectualise your genes, which make aspects of your life inevitable. There are some around." Bad Timing began with a favourite Italian paperback of the producer Carlo Ponti, a story of sexual obsession that neither Roeg nor his screenwriter, Yale Udoff, read. ![]() "Did you pirate it?" Roeg asks when we meet to discuss it. Keitel probes into Garfunkel's head Garfunkel and Russell mangle each other's. Scenes of Russell during orgasm and tracheotomy are spliced with surgical flicks of Roeg's editing knife. Flashbacks show Garfunkel - poised, repressed, a professional voyeur who lends his expertise to Nato military intelligence - and Russell, a chaotic force who needs to be free, dragging each other to breakdown in Vienna, while in the film's present Keitel leads Garfunkel toward the memory of what he really did in the hours before the drugged Russell reached hospital: he raped her unconscious body. It only really has four characters: psychology professor Alex (Art Garfunkel), his lover Milena (Theresa Russell), her husband Stefan (Denholm Elliott) and Austrian detective Netusil (Harvey Keitel), who interrogates Alex after Milena's attempted suicide.Īll that really happens is that Roeg unravels the strands trapping two people in love. Things like that, they were just fluke things.Bad Timing barely has a plot. ![]() Within a five-minute stretch, we lost our two best players. It doesn’t happen in October and they have time to come back in January or February. “Within a five-minute stretch, you lose your two best players. “This is no lie,” said Crawford, who signed with the Wolves last summer after the Clippers traded him to Atlanta in a summer makeover and the Hawks bought out his contract. With both players gone, the rest of the playoffs lasted just two more games. In Game 4, Paul broke his hand in one moment and Griffin aggravated a troublesome quad injury the next and suddenly both were gone for the rest of the playoffs. He remembers an April 2016 playoff series against Portland that the Clippers led 2-0. “It was just sometimes bad timing,” he said. But he played five seasons there for a franchise he called “family,” long enough to see enough strange things. ![]() Now 18 seasons in the league, Crawford doesn’t believe in hocus-pocus. As Jerry Zgoda of the Star Tribune highlights, its not as easy to explain away the Clippers’ tough luck as you might think: Now that he’s on a team that has to go through the Clippers to reach their own postseason goals, Crawford can acknowledge the strange things that always seem to afflict the Clippers, who are in Minneapolis for a game against the Timberwolves tonight ( 7 ET, NBA League Pass). So when he hears the phrase “Clippers Curse” he knows it’s just talk, urban legend even, and an easy way to explain away some horrible twists of fate for a franchise the has endured more than its fair share of such things. Jamal Crawford spent five seasons experiencing all things Los Angeles Clippers, both the good and the bad, before moving on to his reserve role with the Minnesota Timberwolves this season. * Tonight on NBA League Pass: Clippers vs. ![]()
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