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Long Day's Journey Late Night. O'Neill expressed the full agony of American Family life in his best play, which is also the finest American drama, Sidney Lumet, who hasn't made a fine film since, assembled a great cast to perform it-Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell-and picked a master cineniatographer, Boris Kaufman, to make the images jibe with the faces and dialogue. The result is devastating...
...have found the secret to perpetual life." With firefights still raging outside Saigon, Cloud was understandably guarded in his reaction to reports of an imminent ceasefire. But last week, with Henry Kissinger proclaiming "Peace is at hand," a team of 23 TIME writers and reporter-researchers under Senior Editors Jason McManus and Otto Friedrich put the final touches to a 20-page special section on the long war and the shape of coming peace. The section was begun three weeks ago after we learned that significant progress was being made at the secret Paris talks. "It is an attempt," says...
...Jason (Bruce Dern) lives like some sleazy sultan, complete with a harem consisting of an aging, manic coquette (Ellen Burstyn) and her empty-eyed stepdaughter (Julie Anne Robinson). He is a wheeler-dealer in shopworn dreams, an anxious scam artist with a line of patter that makes him sound like one of Eugene O'Neill's drummers. David, ever skeptical, eventually lets himself be suckered in, more to demonstrate a kind of desperate solidarity with his brother than anything else. The scheme is an old Staebler fantasy: take over an island called Tiki in the Hawaiian archipelago, build...
...subsidize this vacant dream, Jason has been acting as front man for a black mobster called Lewis (Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers) and doing some fast real estate shuffling with a couple of cavernous old hotels (It is very desirable to erect hotels on account of the very large rental...). Irretrievably second rate, hopelessly outsmarted by the black gangsters, Jason sees his dreams of glory collapse like one of the rotten piers along the ocean's edge (A player is bankrupt when he owes more than...
...nearly a decade, Dern has been playing featured parts in everything from The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant to The Cowboys, and this kind of apprenticeship has taught him how to turn a scene with a shrug or an inflection. Now, with the rich role of Jason, Dern's talents can really unfold. He has an almost combustible uncertainty that shades Jason's assurance with doubt and intimations of defeat. Dern also moves Jason beyond the more obvious pyrotechnics to which the script has confined him, and the scene in which he embraces an embarrassed Nicholson...