 Driving around in all that smog, fixing TVs out of the back of a VW bus. I just couldn't do it. It's a speech that captures the last detail of feared tedium. Pauline Kael, the New Yorker critic, once wrote that Robert Towne had an ear for unaffected dialogue and a gift for never forcing a point. He reportedly touched up the scene in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather where Don Corleone and his son Michael, whom he never wanted to join his crime family...