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...named Norman Wexler reportedly wrote Joe's screenplay in about a week. It shows. This movie has one of the most preposterous plots of all time, full of the kind of implausible events that made comic books so irresistibly attractive just before puberty...
...never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz last week, contemplating his 41 years in Hollywood. Mankiewicz, who won Academy Awards for both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently...
...What I really want to do now," he says, "is to direct." He is currently working with a writer to develop an original screenplay for his first venture behind the cameras. He and Brodsky have also discussed producing a film for Barbra, with Mrs. Gould in the leading role and Elliott, maybe, directing. "Listen," Gould grins, contemplating all these conquerable worlds, "I'm not even in my prime...
Williams treats it on a level of such abstraction that the film presents no arguments-ideological, moral, or otherwise-but simply models for revolutionary existence. Hans Koningsberger's screenplay (from his novel) schematically recounts the evolution of the central character, the hypothetical A. (Jon Voight) through all the leftist possibilities in some indefinite (through modern) place and time, (hypothetically) "somewhere in the free world," from liberal protest to bomb-hurling, as he half drifts, half-extracts himself from the morass of liberal mystification...
...Bunny Lake Is Missing, Hurry Sundown), but never in his mercurial career has he made anything quite as tacky as Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. Adapted from an oddly beguiling novel by Marjorie Kellogg (who could be justifiably outraged if she had not written the deadly screenplay herself), Junie Moon is at base an egregious attempt to exploit both sentimental and kinky appetites...