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...death was to be reserved not for the Mob, but for all Justice Department employees who used the terms Mafia and Cosa Nostra officially. The league subsequently persuaded the film makers of The Godfather, which is about practically nothing but the Mafia, to excise the hated term from their screenplay. That was a feat roughly comparable to composing a history of World War II without mentioning Nazis...
Critics and audiences alike have responded with enthusiasm to Follies' stylistic inventiveness. There is less unanimity of feeling about the theme. Some ?including TIME'S T.E. Kalem?found in it Proustian resonances. Some contend that James Goldman, whose screenplay for The Lion in Winter won a 1968 Oscar, has supplied less of a book than a book jacket. For Phyllis, he wrote some pseudo-sophisticated, Manhattanite monologues that are better read than said...
...Crazy Sundays also makes a more than convincing case for Fitzgerald's comprehension of the film as a medium distinct from the novel or the play. By dramatizing the writer's development from screenplay to screenplay, Latham shows how Fitzgerald gradually began to disregard dialogue for visual images until, in Cosmopolitan , he wrote what seems to be an ideal script for the motion picture camera. We also see Fitzgerald's continued interest in sexual politics: in Madame Curie the novelist-turned-screenwriter played up the fact that his heroine had managed to fashion a successful marriage despite her devotion...
...devotee like myself-I've spent what seems like the better part of the past eighteen months reading and rereading Fitzgerald and his biographers- Crazy Sundays offers quite a few incisive footnotes, as well as the gold mine of new screenplay material. But, if you know little about Fitzgerald, it would be wiser to start with Arthur Mizener's fine standard biography. The Far Side of Paradise ; then take a look at the underwritten but magnificently researched Zelda . Better yet, take advantage of the Fitzgerald revival by getting copies of his works themselves, large stacks of which...
...major awards: she picked Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces) as best supporting actress instead of Winner Helen Hayes (Airport). Otherwise, though, Mrs. Evans was as prescient as could be: she correctly named Patton for best picture, best direction (Franklin J. Schaffner), best actor (George C. Scott), and best original screenplay (Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund North); Glenda Jackson (Women in Love) for best actress; John Mills (Ryan's Daughter) for best supporting actor; Francis Lai (Love Story) for best musical score. It was too much to expect that she would also have picked the Oscar ceremony's best...