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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Susan (Melanie Mayron) is a New York Jewish girl paying her dues as a photographer on the bar mitzvah and wedding circuit while waiting to hit the big-time. Her roommate and closest friend, Ann (played rather woodenly by Anita Skinner) is an aspiring poet who leaves Susan to get married. Susan painfully adjusts to living alone, her career advances sporadically, and after floundering awkwardly through two romantic attempts, she finally settles down comfortably in love...
WEILL'S APPARENT PURPOSE is to focus on the friendship of the two women, but she shifts to a study of Susan. While it is Mayron's performance which makes Susan such an attractive and humorous character, not all the problems with the character of Ann stem from Skinner's weak performance. Ann hovers in stereotypically suburban settings, seeming not only distant from Susan, but from the camera as well. One finds her cold and unsympathetic, and even the original friendship seems implausible at times...
...lopsided presentation of the two roles of Susan and Ann gives Mayron more of the spotlight, but at the expense of an involving plot. Weill's documentary style uses everyday situations to reveal changes in the attitudes of the characters. Susan, however, holds the screen alone for so much of the film and so dominates it even when Ann appears that the film seems to be a celluloid diary of Susan's life as a young woman in New York. It's true to the city, and offers some well executed cameo roles of gallery owners and Soho artistes...
...very first night in America. That evening convinces her that she wants to be an entertainer when she grows up. She succeeds and eventually plays the role of a Rockette in a big, splashy TV show about Radio City. Which just happens to be the real-life story of Ann-Margret, who appears with Beverly Sills and Diahann Carroll in NBC's Dec. 14 special, Rockette: A Holiday Tribute to the Radio City Music Hall. In preparation for the show, Ann-Margret practiced in front of mirrors, producing all by herself one of the most spectacular lineups of Rockettes...
...Ann Isaacson...