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...What we have here is not only dripping but gripping stuff, whose essence might be summarized as: Can a 57-year-old Westport, Conn., salad-dressing manufacturer find satisfaction as a hotshot race-car driver, successful political activist, prizewinning movie director, solid-state sex symbol, show-biz iconoclast and possibly the most commanding male presence in films during the past three decades? If that sounds just a touch overheated, never fear. We have Paul Newman to play the lead...
...this be happening? With obsessive drive, a brilliant mastery of automotive engineering and management techniques, and a maverick's allure, De Lorean, barely out of his 30s, had risen to rule the Pontiac and Chevrolet divisions of giant General Motors. He had charmed his way into the glitzier show-biz celebrity circles, dating the likes of Candice Bergen, Nancy Sinatra and Ursula Andress before selecting his third wife, Actress-Model Cristina Ferrare, 32 (he is 57). Impatient with the corporate world's slow decision making, he had quit GM to race down a faster track. He had persuaded Britain...
...show-biz royalty was saluting show-biz royalty on opening night as a cavalcade of limos rolled up to the marquee of the Winter Garden, disgorging the likes of Bianca Jagger, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Barbara Walters, Mary Tyler Moore, Placido Domingo and Joanne Woodward. Among them was the graciously articulate poet's widow, Valerie Eliot, the artistic patroness of the production. After the performance, the whole glittering assemblage adjourned to the Waldorf-Astoria for a celebratory supper. Buoyed on the crest of the show's commercial prospects, the festivities were not dampened by a wave of initial reviews that...
Brustein believes applause affects a professor's delivery in other ways as well. "Good actors try to create a circumstance that looks like they're remaking it up as they go along," he says. "You satisfy yourself as a lecturer most spontaneous." Applause, he concludes," encourages a certain show biz attitude...
...Dying is easy, comedy is hard," Swann intones at one point, claiming this switch on an ancient show-biz truism is an expiring actor's last words, but My Favorite Year's writers and director are sometimes too determined to make it seem as comfortable as possible. The script occasionally ladles warm chicken soup over situations where a spritz in the face would be more appropriate. There are times when Actor Richard Benjamin, making his debut as a feature-film director, is too content with a scene's obvious values to find a handle to twist...