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...English-language drama overladen with artsy Continental flavor, Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) miscasts Jeanne Moreau, an actress far too frost-free to catch the temper of a frustrated spinster. She brings every subconscious drive boiling to the surface, and her roaring heterosexual readiness makes a parody of the screenplay by France's poet of perversion, Jean Genet...
Conquering Distrust. For the 52-year-old writer, the workshop at Watts has been his toughest task since the days when he prowled the docks gathering material for the screenplay of On the Waterfront. When the Westminster Association announced his first class, ten young Negroes signed up, but only two bothered to show. Undiscouraged, Schulberg kept at it, eventually conquered the distrust of his students. Now he has 18 regulars, ranging from boys in their teens to unemployed rniddle-aged workers...
Though the resemblance of Madness to Bondomania is otherwise superficial, Director Irvin Kershner savors the joke to excess. The rest of Elliott Baker's screenplay, adapted from his own 1964 novel and filmed with careful fidelity on the seedy side of Manhattan, is a fitfully funny satire based on a portrait of the artist as the natural enemy of all Establishment norms. This voguish half-truth worked well enough in book form, where nearly every character was a well-managed mass of lunatic impulses. In the movie, everyone seems to be racing against the threat of imminent condensation. Director...
...screenplay started twelve years and countless versions ago as a literal adaptation of the novel. The late Ben Hecht had three bashes at it. It was then completely rejiggered by Billy Wilder, who in turn got rewritten by Joe (Catch-22) Heller. To no avail. By last week the script du jour was the product of Terry Southern, Wolf Mankowitz and John Law. Except that Peter Sellers has winged most of his scenes, John Huston is redoing his, and Woody Allen is working up an altogether new concept...
This year's "Movie Worsts" will be the longest regular issue the Lampoon has ever published. It will be 52 pages long and feature an expanded awards section, a take-off called My Fair Philly, and suggestions for a screenplay of Beowulf...