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...hard to make Strip vulnerable and compassionate: watching him, one can imagine how the film might have dealt seriously with the issues it raises about men and women. Travolta alone, of course, cannot save the movie, but it is reassuring to know that there is at least one professional onscreen...
...Onscreen, Rukeyser has a rakish air that appeals especially to women. One Florida newspaper described him as "looking as if he just rolled out of a haystack having administered investment advice to a lady client." His puckish commentaries on the ups and downs of Wall...
...Radio City, Lassie is not only onscreen but also onstage four times a day. She and her trainer and groom share a $380-a-day suite at the Plaza Hotel, and a Pinkerton detective protects her from unfriendly Dobermans and Great Danes and overly friendly Shih Tzus and Lhasa Apsos. He cannot protect her from the law, however. In Central Park last week, a policeman came up and ordered Bob Weatherwax, the son of her famous trainer, Rudd, to put her on a leash. "This dog never wears a leash," protested Weatherwax. "This is Lassie!" Responded the cop: "Right...
Just as his welcome was wearing out in Los Angeles, Mankiewicz was saved by the arrival of another brilliant talker, Orson Welles. The young director suggested a collaboration. The result, a thinly disguised biography of Press Lord William Randolph Hearst, was Citizen Kane. Even before the classic flickered onscreen, Welles and Mank were disputing the writing credits; who contributed what remains a matter of acrimonious debate. After exhaustive research, Meryman convincingly concludes that though the script was a cooperative venture, the controlling interest belongs to Mankiewicz...
...Quite simply, it is an almost scientific exercise in showbiz mediocrity. This smooth and passionless spectacle is too impersonal to win anyone's affection and too inoffensive to inspire hatred. It's so bland that it evaporates from memory as soon as the final credits appear onscreen. Were Jaws 2 not a sequel to one of the most popular movies of all time, it would probably sink, without fanfare, into the briny deep of drive-in triple bills...