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...Sullivan four times (one will be rerun July 26) and signed a $250,000 record contract with Decca. In accepted success-story fashion, she has moved her father, a TV repairman, and her mother, who worked as a hospital clerk to pay for her singing lessons, from their Bronx walk-up apartment to Manhattan's expensive Upper East Side...
...they are headed for the movies. Julie has started and quit three acting schools ("With all these weird people and the dirty language, I am getting a headache!"). Karen is studying with Speech Coach Dorothy Sarnoff to get rid of her accent. "I'm nadda girl from The Bronx anymore," she says. While their futures promise neither the disasters nor the distinction of a Garland or Piaf, Wyman and Budd are mostly fighting the comparison with Streisand. Of course, as Julie says, "that's better than being compared with, say, Sadie Glick...
...FROM The Bronx, in perennial imitation of the pioneers, a salesman or engineer heads west in his camper-past the northern borders of Harlem, across the Hudson, through the almost Dantean landscape beside the New Jersey Turnpike, where his family rolls up the windows against the stench of chemical plants. Down the road, as the Howard Johnson's tick by, all breathe easier. By mid-Pennsylvania, past the Amish country and into the Allegheny foothills, the father is almost counting cows with his children. Local radio stations dissolve in static every 50 miles; insects detonate against the windshield...
...through them with his own brand of mad logic. What sort of actor would turn down a tempting offer from Mike Nichols to play in Catch-22, but accept the lead role as a Dublin manure spreader in a film improbably titled Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in The Bronx? To everyone's good fortune (especially his own), Wilder did just that. Says he: "Quackser was the idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where I'm at now-humorous, sexual, innocent and striving for simplicity." Wilder's delicate blend...
...dissolves in a desperate attempt to obscure the transparency of Israel Horovitz's script. Horovitz himself is a very concerned, intelligent man, and even makes a cameo appearance in this movie, but his screenplay has little of the punch of his plays like Rats, or The Indian Wants the Bronx. One thing to be said in his favor is that he is not entranced with adolescent lingo. The director on the other hand has taken the movie as a challenge; how to create the most accurate social document of this decade, right down to creating a plu-perfect student room...