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GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND: Cybill Shepherd Freudian-slipping in plugs for Director Roommate Peter Bogdanovich's films as she coyly read "Paper Moon" for The Paper Chase, "The Last Picture Show" for The Last Detail, while reciting the nominees for the best supporting actor...
Plus a selection of outstanding but more frequently shown, films around town: Bergman's psychological masterpiece, Person. High Noon, possibly the finest Western ever made. Hitchcock's intriguing Dial M for Murder. The famous Betty Boop cartoons. Bogdanovich's Paper Moon, and Woody Allen hilarious Bananas...
Director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show; What's Up, Doc?) was in Rome, prowling round the Colosseum to do the night shots for his film version of Henry James' classic love story Daisy Miller. As for the lead, she was Bogdanovich's girl friend, Actress-Cover Girl Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich is already giving the author of the novel most of the credit for the movie. "Daisy Miller picked me," he explained. "I thought that if Henry James had gone to all the trouble to write a good part for Cybill, I should shoot...
Everything about this movie seems carefully calculated for effect. Even the director. The ubiquitous advertisements for Electro Glide in Blue feature the 27-year-old James William Guercio in aviator shades and high-lace boots, looking like Bogdanovich from the neck up and DeMille from the knees down. It would not matter, of course, what the ads or the director looked like if the movie deserved either of the adjectives often associated with first features -"interesting" or "promising." In its slick pomposity, though, the publicity campaign has neatly captured the essence of the film...
...sentiment gathers the disenchantment of 1973 in a nutshell and transfers it to a moment of the past. For Bogdanovich, the disenchantment creates a self-awareness more important than illusory goals. Admittedly this is resignation in the face of defeat, but when it is only art and not a way of life, I accept...