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...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This film version of Ken Kesey's fable about a lunatic asylum in the Pacific Northwest lacks all the subtlety and tension that marked the novel in its best moments. But it does offer a brilliant performance by Jack Nicholson perfectly cast as Randle Patrick McMurphy, the hard-living con man who sparks the inmates to rebel against the psychologically castrating Head Nurse only to find himself out-conned...
Condon treats these complicated forces as if they all added up to the mechanism of a cuckoo clock. The characters pop in and out of beds and public favor with predictable but amusing regularity. Condon's style, which has seemed preachy and sodden in recent years, achieves some of the snap and malice that enlivened such earlier works as The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate. Caroline, he writes, "tends to overdress except at the bod ices, which are cut so low, the gossip goes, that one can see the top of Sir Sid ney Smith's head...
...Sterile Cuckoo--Channel...
Married. Michael Douglas, 32, actor and Academy Award-winning co-producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; and Diandra Lucker, 21, Georgetown University foreign affairs student whom he met at a Carter preInauguration party in Washington; both for the first time; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Said Actor Kirk Douglas, father of the groom: "I'll kill that guy if he turns me into a grandfather...
...Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, played by the original National Touring Production at the new Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave., Boston. Through Jan. 23 with evening shows at 8 with Saturday matinees at 2. Tickets...