Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Candice Bergen plays (she can never be said actually to portray) T.R. Baskin, a callow young thing from Ohio, so fresh faced that she looks like a Clearasil testimonial. T.R. gets a job in the typing pool of some Kafkaesque neon-lit office. A friend finds her a date with an affluent racist, whom she fearlessly denounces. After that it is home to her crummy one-room apartment and endless nights falling asleep in front of the television...
...TIMOTHY BAL North Bergen...
...apothecary. By day he brewed prescriptions over a kitchen stove; by night he wrote radical poems and skits that read like bad Kipling. At 23, indirectly because of a stormy verse drama he had written, he was offered the post of director and playwright at the theater in Bergen. His first four plays flopped, and as a director he was a washout. Too shy to tell his actors what to do, he sat in the back of the theater tugging at his beard or hurried away from confrontation muffled up in a huge romantic cloak that made him look like...
...Nichols opens with a series of kinetically hilarious sketches, starring Campus Smoothie Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and his pre-med buddy Sandy (Arthur Garfunkel). Cinematically, Nichols has never been less tricky or more acute. With dazzling focus he watches Sandy light upon an icily gorgeous WASP named Susan (Candice Bergen). The naif spills every intimate detail to his roommate; with metronomic two-timing, Jonathan moves in on Sandy and with Susan. But the Ivy rake has only one real amour: the mirror. Eventually he abandons Susan to Sandy, who marries her and lives happily never after...
...depths of its economic doldrums, the U.S. entertainment industry rallied last week to raise over $800,000 for its Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. There were parties all weekend, notably one given by Sammy Davis Jr. and a "come casually beautiful" dinner dance at Polly Bergen's. The gala, with an audience of 5,300 at the Los Angeles Music Center, outgalaed just about everything in Hollywood memory. "Never before have so many stars appeared in one evening," said M.C. Jimmy Stewart, "and that includes the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards...