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...everything. There is hardly a period-character who isn't included in Larry's group of artsy Village friends. His girlfriend, Sarah, is a Jewish princess who sleeps with him even though she is restless for a less loitering life. Robert is a suave, narcissistic poet-playwright: Anita, suicidal; Bernstein is a cute black homosexual; and Connie, the old maid, everybody's best friend. Although they spend hours together in heavy intellectual raps, when something important happens--the suicide of Anita, Sarah running off to Mexico with Robert, Larry getting a role in a Hollywood movie as a neighborhood tough...
MAZURSKY'S FASCINATION with images ultimately limits him to surface details. The characters play "truth" at a party only to reveal that underneath their masks are just more masks. As Bernstein says, with the blankets over his head, all their lives are fictions since it is safer to remain "under the covers." But without any three-dimensional character to compare them to, the final judgment on their image remains ambiguous. The life of a young artist in the fifties seems attractive on Mazursky's screen, but was it really, after all, this...
Dvorak: Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33 (Justus Frantz, soloist; New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Columbia; $6.98). Critics frequently poke fun at this stepchild of the late 19th century piano repertory. The orchestral Sturm und Drang, it is said, overpower the naive keyboard design. There is nothing naive about Frantz's virile interpretation, however. The young Polish pianist effortlessly bounces off rippling melodies and roaring cadenzas...
...Magruder--and he also had a clearer idea than most journalists had of the White House hierarchy and the indicators which pointed the finger at Haldeman and Ehrlichman. "Money was important, but only a few reporters wrote about it. I was zeroing in on it in July. Woodward and Bernstein did not really know the law of the land on Haldeman until late in the year. I understood at the earliest point that Haldeman had to have known, because he ran everything and I knew the way he operated--no one else there would ever do anything without checking first...
Fizzled Poseurs. Larry and Sarah's friends have a nodding acquaintance with both self-destruction and self-fulfillment. Robert (Christopher Walken) writes plays, lives off women; Connie (Dori Brenner) wants to be a novelist and plays nursemaid to her black gay pal Bernstein Chandler (Antonio Fargas), who claims his mother named him after the Jewish family for whom she worked 30 years as a maid. All of them keep an eye on the fragile, mad-eyed actress Anita (Lois Smith), who periodically attempts suicide...