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...Place. The attraction at this show is really Lady from Shanghai, one of Orson Welles's best movies. But it's well known, and this is our week of obscurity. The lonely place is Hollywood, and Bogart is a screenwriter who's hit the skids. Forced to write a screenplay of a trashy novel he hasn't read--sort of like the way our Stage encapsulist sometimes operates, we guess--Bogart snares a hat-check girl who explains the book to him and then gets strangled. For diehard fans of Bogart, or of Police Gazette...
MAME Directed by GENE SAKS Screenplay by PAUL ZINDEL
However kind the camera tries to be to her, Miss Ball is still the victim of her vehicle. Jerry Herman's music and lyrics ("You make carnations bloom in the mud, Ma-aa-me") abuse the ear. The screenplay, by the Pulitzer-prizewrnning playwright Paul Zindel, is full of inexcusable dialogue ("I haven't got you anything for Christmas yet, but how about a kiss on account?" "You know who Mame is-she's the Pied Piper"). Beatrice Arthur, the rage right now as television's Maude, brings the movie to life whenever she appears...
...THREE MUSKETEERS Directed by RICHARD LESTER Screenplay by GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER...
...picture, deriving much of its energy from its own streamlined sleaziness and from the skills of its two stars, Elliott Gould and Robert Blake. Both of them have a kind of sour, dehydrated charm that is nicely used by Director-Writer Hyams, whose most notable previous effort was the screenplay for the noxious T.R. Baskin. Gould and Blake play a couple of L.A. vice cops who are offhandedly conscientious about their work and cynical about its results. Their superiors, ever mindful of valuable connections and their bank accounts, are constantly thwarting them in their appointed rounds. Gould and Blake...