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...Twice in a Lifetime would deserve respectful attention if all it did were redress that imbalance. But the story of how the 30-year marriage of Steelworker Harry Mackenzie (Hackman in another solid performance) and his wife Kate (Ellen Burstyn) sunders has another dimension. Scenarist Welland (who wrote Chariots of Fire with another kind of class consciousness) and Director Yorkin (who created All in the Family with Norman Lear) want to use the Mackenzies' disorder to explore sympathetically an entirely unfashionable layer of life...
...filmmakers, the disintegration of a marriage is not at all an occasion for faultfinding or for a highly compressed dramatic crisis. Everyone in Twice in a Lifetime is decent. Harry only reluctantly concedes the validity of his need for emotional renewal, and he never entirely forgives himself the pain he causes. He is, in fact, as surprised as anyone when, while celebrating his 50th birthday with his fellow mill hands, he falls passionately in love with a barmaid (Ann-Margret). Stunned, Kate is tempted toward but fights off a state of permanent victimization. Helping her to remobilize are a married...
...happened. The incentive chase may also induce some stress of its own. At Scherer, a worker who has not been late or absent for ten years wins a fortnight for two in Florida. One employee now in his sixth year of perfect service, says Scherer, "tells me that about twice a year he jumps out of bed in a panic in the middle of the night afraid he has missed his alarm clock...
...been wandering, rankling, challenging and extending the musical margin for more than two decades. Don't think twice, anyone: it is 22 years since Blowin' in the Wind appeared on his second album, and a flat 20 since Like a Rolling Stone was released and kicked rock songwriting onto its head. Incredible that there could have been such a radical change in his style in just two years, from the plainspoken beauty of Wind to the diabolical and delirious poetry of Stone. There was hardly a beat for transition, just an amphetamine rush of allusive imagery and electric boogie fused...
...Biograph. It wasn't my idea to put the record out. I haven't sat down and listened to it. Even when I make a record, I listen to it once or twice before it's out, and then once it's out, I don't really listen to it anymore. I didn't really take a hand in this because my enthusiasm for making records might not be what it was 20 years ago, I don't know...