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...Blazing Saddles), has a splendid knack for the non sequitur. He thinks nothing of interrupting a tense action sequence for throwaway lines about freeze-dried coffee or The Price Is Right. His inventive writing could not be in the hands of a better cast. Sounding a bit like the bastard son of Bugs Bunny and Humphrey Bogart, Falk delivers his wildest speeches with a cool sincerity that bespeaks true comic madness. Arkin is the wailing violin that accompanies Falk's gravel-toned bass. Together these actors form the funniest comic team since Zero Mostel met Gene Wilder in Brooks...
...Kansas City, to interview him for The Crimson. In 1948, we had been the only Massachusetts paper to support him. "Aren't you a funny magazine?" he asked. "No, we try to be serious," I answered. What did he think of President Eisenhower? "How can he let that bastard Joe McCarthy get away with destroying honest people," he said. "The one thing I can't forgive Ike for was that he didn't stand up for George Marshall when McCarthy attacked him." In retrospect, veritas was virtue as much as it was fact, passion and integrity as much...
Alien may prove to be Hollywood's most efficient moneymaking machine of the summer. Technically slick and commercially singleminded, this film attempts to crossbreed the scare tactics of Jaws with the sci-fi hardware of Star Wars. The result is a cinematic bastard, and a pretty mean bastard at that. Alien contains a couple of genuine jolts, a barrage of convincing special effects and enough gore to gross out children of all ages. What is missing is wit, imagination and the vaguest hint of human feeling. Luckily for Alien's creators, such ingredients are not really essential...
...other side of the coin, Amiel Sternberg's Uncle Ernie, a doddering bugger who assaults Tommy while singing "Fiddle About," is certainly a horny old bastard but is played too much as a drooling victim of uncontrollable sexual urges. The innocent relish of Daltry's original has disappeared and the desperate emotion that takes its place is unconvincing. Who would even ask the question "Do you think it's all right--(to leave the boy with Uncle Ernie)" if they were leaving him behind with such a creature...
DEWITT: Hey, there's no definitive nothing. Nowhere. I like Kubrick, and he's a cold bastard. I dig Antonioni. They use actors, but they're more concerned with exploring the boundaries of the medium. That's cool. Altman's films are sloppy, but so is true art. Your mother...