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...article for the Post, George Lardner Jr., who covered the Shaw trial and now specializes in national-security issues, called Garrison's investigation "a fraud" and attacked the script for such dubious scenes as one in which Ferrie is murdered by two mysterious figures who force medicine down his throat. (The New Orleans coroner ruled that Ferrie died of natural causes, though two apparent suicide notes were found.) Lardner also ridiculed the film's attempt to explain away Garrison's botched prosecution of Shaw by inventing a Garrison aide who turns out to be a mole for the Feds aiming...
Even critics of the Warren Commission find fault with Stone's version of events. Harold Weisberg, author of Whitewash, one of the earliest attacks on the Warren Report, calls Stone's script "a travesty" that dredges up bogus theories and unfounded speculation. Among them: the suggestion that three hobos arrested near the assassination site were involved (they were vagrants who had nothing to do with the assassination, says Weisberg), and Garrison's "discovery" that the route of Kennedy's motorcade had been changed at the last minute (a phony charge, says Weisberg, that was based on conflicting descriptions...
Stone, with some justification, has objected to his film's being dissected even before it is finished. The criticisms, he says, are based on the first draft of a script that has been substantially revised. (The Ferrie murder scene, for example, has been eliminated.) Stone compares the Post's attack on his film to the Hearst newspapers' efforts to suppress Citizen Kane five decades ago. "This is a repeat performance," says Stone. "But nothing is | going to stop me from finishing this movie." The director insists, moreover, on his right to make a movie that expresses his view...
...long realized his tendency to play to the caviar crowd. When he was starting in stand-up comedy 31 years ago, his manager Jack Rollins told him, "You do lines only dogs can hear." Reflecting on his first, butchered script, for What's New Pussycat, which became enormously popular, Allen said, "If they had let me make it, I could have made it twice as funny and half as successful." By this standard, Allen's Alice (U.S. gross: $7 million) is 40 times as good as Home Alone (U.S. gross: $270 million...
...Robert Harling-Andrew Bergman script, loopy life contrives to imitate trashy art with marvelous fidelity. There are moments when the plot of The Sun Also Sets seems marginally more realistic -- or anyway more temperate -- than the lives of its performers. For Soapdish is something the movies rarely attempt: a flat-out farce, all slamming doors, thrown objects, misplaced emotions and terrific timing by a wonderful ensemble of actors. Field has an unsuspected gift for comic malevolence, and Kline has a way of putting a soft, almost endearing spin on egomania. No one has ever acted bad acting better than these...