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...could cross the Susitna was to hire Bush Pilot Don Sheldon to fly you from Talkeetna on the eastern bank over to Old Homesteader Shorty Bradley's pasture on the western side. The land-office man in Anchorage warned them, "That river is a real bear cat...
...lyric best, Williams gave us the powerful tension and drama of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). In Vieux Carre, written more than 20 years later, it has become more difficult for the author to rise above melodrama. And while we've certainly come to expect the simplistic repetition of the themes, there still is a limit to how much we can stomach of lines like, "People die of loneliness ...loneliness is so thick in this house, you can feel it,' and "There's no defense against the truth...
...really come to terms with their own roles, perhaps in part because of the weakness and limited range of their characters. This seems especially true for Houghton, who might be expected to be better given the success of an earlier attempt at Williams, performing Brick in last year's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. However, the part of the usually barechested Tye, while allowing ample opportunity for literal stretching of the muscles, seems to leave little room for more figurative artistic flexing...
...drill that moves toward her and through her like the phallus of death. As usual, De Palma tips his hat (and his hand) with Hitchcock allusions: Is this his third remake of Vertigo? As usual, the director's gliding camera announces its presence quietly but surely, like a cat on a carpet. His point here seems to be that voyeurism can induce a trancelike emotional paralysis-a message feminists could appreciate if Body Double took less pleasure in the mechanics of mutilation, and that ordinary moviegoers could ponder if the characters' motivations were not so numbingly nitwit. Upscale...
...Wars-sized lucre, but enough Americans have good enough taste to give them a shot at profitability. The difficulty is that quality acting, writing, and directing must be invested in the film, and the ad campaign must get the message to the right audience. Unfortunately, the theme-oriented copy-cat attitude of most film executives justifies the abandonment of good films if a similar has just gone down the tubes, irrespective of their relative qualities. As long as America and Hollywood survive, the classic comic romance will live on, preferably in versions as good or better than American Dreamer...