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...Then I looked at it. It was about three pages long. I was hysterical. I threw the script at Bob Altman and started yelling and crying at the same time. 'You son of a bitch, how can you ask me to play a part like that, you dirty bastard, whoever you are-it's practically not even there!' 'Stop, stop!' Bob Altman says from behind the desk, where he's hiding. 'You're Hot Lips. You've got to be Hot Lips. We'll swing with...
Director Robert Fuest is quite a comedown from original Director William Wyler, then hitting his stride. Wyler worked against the faintly ridiculous aspects of the plot. Fuest emphasizes them: the young bastard Heathcliff finds a soul mate in Cathy, who swears "I am Heath-cliff." Grown to wild manhood, he is thrust out of the ancestral digs, Wuthering Heights, by its owner Hindley. Cathy is pledged to another; Heathcliff goes abroad and returns a sudden gentleman of fortune. At the gaming table he wins most of the estate from the ruined Hindley, but too late. Cathy, doomed...
...Unfortunately, the critics now feel free to attack whenever possible. When receiving The Bible, most of the big-time New York critics waxed nostalgic for the DeMille days of yore. (Gary Arnold, in the now defunct Diplomat, recognized the great irony: Huston and DeMille were the legitimate and bastard heirs to Griffith's narrative film style. Huston translated it into lean, expressive prose, DeMille into doggerel,) Such creditable films as Reflections in a Golden Eve or A Walk with Love and Death are ignored altogether...
...nouveau riche he pesters his wife about her clothes, about party invitations that she must send out, about choosing the proper wine, and so forth. Tina is being pecked not by a rooster but by a hen. Her lover, on the other hand, comes on as a virile, aggressive bastard with a sexy smile-and you know that if her husband were to find about the affair he would probably say, "Why Tina! I'm surprised at you; don't I give you all you need?" and then add, "But you know, he's a very famous author. I always...
Howe has nothing but scorn for the Millett assertion that only men have human work to do. Asks he: "Is the poor bastard writing soap jingles performing a 'human' task morally or psychologically superior to what his wife does at home, where she can at least reach toward an uncontaminated relationship with her own child...