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...about half-way through the encounter scenes of the two lovers-to-be, one begins to have serious doubts about the movie. Caroline, the girl Elgin falls in love with, is played by Susan Dey--former member of the Partridge Family--who does a decent job, considering she must portray one of those vague people who consistently has trouble figuring out what it is all about...
...Kosinski objects violently to this criticism, His novels always portray women "as equally dramatic partners to the protagonist," he said...
...Weiss's Marat/Sade would take their places on stage. There, they would begin to concentrate on their own nervous habits--biting fingernails, wringing hands, pulling hair--and gradually exaggerate the habits so that even before the show began, the audience viewed them as the lunatics Weiss meant them to portray...
Playing two distinctly unattractive characters, Cronyn and Tandy keep an unfailing grip on the audience not by the characters that they portray but with how they interact in flawless craftsmanship. Their words, gestures, voices and facial expressions are like the serves, volleys, lobs and smashes of a championship tennis match. They score 6-love in a play that is stalemated at deuce...
...very much. Russell should try fishing around for a solid script next time. Rudolf Nureyev is the subject for Russell's current experiment, and the results are no cause for pride. Admittedly, Nureyev took on a task more daunting then Daltrey's. While the rock star merely had to portray a deaf, dumb and blind parody of himself in a rock opera that his group had created. Nureyev was asked to bring to life one of the all-time classic leading men in cinema history, a giant of an era that the ballet virtuoso never knew. The role demands...