Word: alda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paper Lion--In which Alan Alda gives a moving performance as George Plympton. At the FRESH POND CINEMA in Fresh Pond...
...unobtrusive narration allowed the reader to feel for himself the manifold agonies of the professional athlete: the pain of learning how to merge head with helmet, the humiliation of fumbling a handoff, the confusion of trying to study a playbook crammed with inscrutable diagrams. The movie gives Alan Alda the doubly difficult task of playing the role of Plimpton the sophisticated writer who is playing the role of Plimpton the ten-thumbed quarterback. Alda looks enough like George-and is clearly no better as an athlete-but his performance conveys little of the book's vicarious terrors. The film...
...trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton's quarterbacking blunders, he becomes an unwelcome intruder, making a simple game out of a serious ritual filled with thunder and grace...
...Apple Tree has brought forth three moldy figs: a musical trio of satirical skits starring Barbara Harris and Alan Alda. Good satire is a difficult form of pertinent irreverence. Flabby satire, with tired targets like Tree's, is unearned derision full of cartoon comedy and plop...
...PUSSYCAT are more kitten (Diana Sands) and mouse (Alan Alda) in Bill Manhoff's amusing yarn about the eternal circular pursuit of male and female...