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...LONG LAST LOVE Directed and Written by PETER BOGDANOVICH...
...embarrassment. Everyone smells blood: people in the movie industry talk disaster, and they do not mean burning office buildings or crippled airplanes; critics move the heavy artillery into place. This may be just the moment, then, if only out of simple charity, to attempt an uneasy truce with Peter Bogdanovich...
...Bogdanovich's movies (like What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon) are so smugly derivative of other, older directors that they seem virtually selfless. In his various media appearances, he comes on either as an unwired stand-up comic or an eager foil for Cybill Shepherd, his well-publicized but untalented girl friend. One has to go back to Targets, Bogdanovich's exciting first feature, to remember that he was a director of talent and promise...
...Long Last Love. Bogdanovich, P. (American film director) is on his professional premature death bed. No one need ask who done it; he done it himself. His latest picture is, as Variety might put it, stinko. Not only that, it is expensive, personalized stinko. Worst of all, this leaden dirigible dragged some very talented people down with it, including Cole Porter, a hard man to sink. When a friend of mine stole the script from Twentieth Century Fox and lent it to me, the two of us sat rocking on chairs for the better part of an afternoon rubbing...
...slim chance, however, that the movie will not be a total waste. Rumor has it that Shepherd and Reynolds became what Modern Screen Magazine refers to as a "Woosome twosome" during the filming. If this is true we may just possibly be spared any more attempts by Bogdanovich to turn his girl friend into a star. For the guarantee of no more Cybill Shepherd movies, I would be willing to sit through anything...