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...House Without A Christmas Tree. Sentimental story of a small-town Nebraska Christmas in 1946 kicks off the Christmas Special season. Emmy-winner Paul Bogart ("Look Homeward, Angel") directs Jason Robards, Lisa Lucas, and Mildred Netwick, CH. 7. Color...
Rafelson's hero is David Staebler (Jack Nicholson), a late night radio monologuist who broadcasts private traumas packaged for cultural consumption. He leaves the sordid bachelor digs he shares with his grandfather in Philadelphia when summoned to Atlantic City by his brother Jason's telegram, "Get your ass down here. The Kingdom is come." The "Kingdom" turns out to be but a revived version of a boyhood fantasy: to take over Tiki island, one of the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino and amass a fast fortune. The Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream...
...result is a film going in too many directions, none of them resolved. For Jeson's sake, David has tagged along skeptically, ever bashfully peering through smudged glasses and trailing a dowdy muffer, But jason turns out to be a second rate front men for a black mobster and is out. Smarted in a shady real estate deal. Sally realizes that her conquette heyday has long since passed and panic brings her to borderline insanity. The sexually insecure David wallows in nervous in-irosprection, and lets the dream linger too long. For Sally hysterically plows four bullets into jason...
WEDNESDAY: Tender Is The Night. 1961 adaptation of the Fitzgerald novel with Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones. CH.56. 8 p.m. Color...
...Fury was written in "that ecstasy, that eager and joyous faith and anticipation of surprise." It also contained, he said, the only scene "which would ever move me very much: Caddy climbing the pear tree to look in the window at her grandmother's funeral while Quentin and Jason and Benjy and the Negroes looked up at the muddy seat of her drawers...