Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrounded by thrusting, omnipresent TV cameras and microphones, California reporters have lately opened some of Governor-elect Ronald Reagan's press conferences with a wry jab at his former profession: "O.K., everybody. Quiet on the set. We're rolling." Yet laugh as they may, ex-Actor Reagan is rolling on to his inauguration with as much professional style as if he had played the part a dozen times...
Believe me, you haven't heard of another actor in the picture. Except Archie Moore, who turns up in a cameo. And it's in black and white, shot entirely on location in Cleveland, Ohio. In other words: cheap. The girl, Hinkle's ex-wife, is some chick by the name of Judi West. She's good, at least for this part. The Negro football-player who bangs into TV cameraman Hinkle and thus gives Wiplash the trumped-up lawsuit he's searching for, is written more or less like every stock Hollywood nice-guy over the last two decades...
...next? With no climax in sight and no single star to shine, part of the answer was 450 bottles of nonvintage Taittinger champagne. Paris Review Editor George Plimpton began throwing slow-motion forward passes with a napkin to Receiver John Kenneth Galbraith, Lynda Bird danced on and on with Actor Roddy McDowall, and Frank Sinatra and Mia drifted out to his favorite West Side...
...Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest-the spider falls happily asleep on Uncle's neck. The spider, as a matter of fact, is the only performer who manages to steal a scene from Actor Green, who comes across as the most stylish blackguard since Cyril Ritchard, as Captain Hook, got gobbled up by that slimy green clockodile...
...wonder then that some of the acting does not come up to the brightness of the whole production. Three dandies start out a scene talking like different human beings, and end it sounding like male counter-parts of the Three Little Maids. Too often an actor enters and sounds as if he has been tuning up to the players on stage. When some one does bring on a new tone, it blows the ether out of Etherege, and makes even the topical references and most elusive wit funny. Mr. Senelick (they've got no first names in the Genuine Antique...