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Taut direction and strong acting more effectively enliven the limp script in Home Free. As a brother and sister living in incest, Bob Waldinger and Susan Ehrlich taunt and comfort each other with a vehemence that flickers between sibling rivalry and lovers' passion. The play is too long, but Waldinger, cowering and speaking with a mouth askew, and Erhrlich, alternately imperious and wistful, draw up the yarn into a ball of tension...
...movie opens with Beatrice's grimace at a department store mirror while she dons a platinum curled wig. She makes a garish picture--an aging belle whose talent for mimicry has twisted into selfmockery. She feeds on pipe dreams to bolster her comedy, but even these pile up to taunt her selfdeception...
...frivolity of his Romans. He re-creates Jovinelli, a proletarian vaudeville, and here the Romans for the first time take over a film rightfully theirs. The ribald workmen are hungry for sex and sentiment. They drool at drooling dancers, swoon at the strains of middle-aged tarts, and taunt the futility of a fourth-rate comic. Vaudeville was a battle between this brawling crowd and their amateur entertainers, to which Mussolini and his war were secondary attractions...
...fault. Didion evoked a city covered in concrete, highways going from nowhere to nowhere. Perhaps filming that inner vision is doomed to fail, since once we see the traffice, it's too familiar to be as arid as Didion's prose images. Still, Perry's attempts to imitate her taunt staccato sentences with abrupt cutting and flashes to yield signs (symbols, anyone?) just doesn't catch the throbbing pulse of Maria's driving--her personal substitute for suicide. When the action moves out to Carter's shooting location in the desert. Hell is still other people, but Perry successfully concentrates...
...walk away from him?" Jack Roosevelt Robinson was puzzled. "Mr. Rickey," he said, "are you looking for a Negro who is afraid to fight back?" "On the contrary," said Rickey, "I'm looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back. They'll taunt you, goad you. Anything to make you fight. Anything to bring about a race riot in the ballpark. If they succeed, they'll be able to prove that having a Negro in baseball doesn't work...