Word: actor
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Moreau hates the cold, so she decided to do a ski-fashion layout as a photographic comic book, shot in a studio. She commissioned Playwright Françoise Dorin to write the scenario and got Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and Actress Nathalie Delon (Alain's ex) to ham it up while modeling the necessary ski clothes. To caption 21 displays of Christmas-gift ideas, Moreau wrote poetry, which is reproduced in her own handwriting and reveals a whimsical side of the serious seductress...
...basic situation, and it is weak, in that the audience knows that she will, or there would be no play. Evy's two closest friends want to be loyal watchdogs, but their own shaky personalities make them abettors of despair. One is a middle-aged homosexual actor (Michael Lombard) who knows he will never make the grade in the theater. The other is a self-pampering narcissist (Betsy von Furstenberg), whose mentality is simply a cosmetic extension of her face. With inexplicable love and concern, Evy's teen-age daughter (Ayn Ruymen) by a husband long since divorced...
...suburban housewife in a severe funk. Stapleton's hysteria is totally convincing, though she speaks in a peculiarly strident and monotonous voice. The unfailingly attractive Betsy von Furstenberg seems to be reciting her lines rather than delivering them. Lombard is most felicitously cast as the homosexual actor and is uncannily reminiscent of James Coco in Last of the Red Hot Lovers...
...lower labor costs and government subsidies that have lured American producers overseas. About half of the films shown in the U.S. this year were foreign-made. Short of cash, many studios sold off valuable real estate, chopped production and consolidated offices. About 80% of the members of the Screen Actors Guild had no work. Quipped Bob Hope: "The only actor still working in California is Ronnie Reagan...
...town life, and scenes such as a going-away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named Don Scardino, who is the most genial and talented young leading man to appear since Beau Bridges...