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...Paris. The concept of the film is daringly poetic for film narrative (the characters' developments are seen largely through their own conscious artistic achievements), but fully achieved. It is a brilliantly acted and mimed film about great mimes and actors who really lived and performed in and around the Boulevard of Crime, But it is as much about different kinds of love, from the infantile to the adolescent to the adult, as it is about the compensating fantasies of theater; as much about every man's need for ideal alternatives beyond the life he actually leads as it is about...
Heat, a faggot rehash of Sunset Boulevard, is about an aging, braying B-picture movie star (Sylvia Miles) who takes up with a narcissistic stud (Joe Dallesandro). The film was made by the Andy Warhol epigone Paul Morrissey, who, like his master, exploits the sorry selection of freaks who have been recruited for the cast. Thus the audience is invited to have a good laugh at the gargoyle visage of Miles, chortle over Dallesandro's near-autistic blankness, and revel in the antics of an obese motel owner, and a schizophrenic lesbian. The lazy profanity and the grungy, grim...
Almost fanatical about her privacy, Tomlin, 33, today lives alone in a one-bedroom house off Sunset Boulevard. She is a militant feminist, and has used the proceeds from her first hit record to buy the movie rights to Cynthia Buchanan's comic novel Maiden, about a disastrously liberated California virgin, in which she eventually hopes to star. Indeed, despite her busy schedule of comic skits on TV variety shows-she is still a Laugh-In regular-and the concert circuit, Lily considers herself first and foremost an actress, and she hankers to play the heavy dramatic parts...
...interest in this quirkish thriller about a couple of Los Angeles gumshoes on their uppers. Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are two private eyes who look as if they just got pulled out of a lineup. Their office is off a parking lot behind Hollywood Boulevard, although you'd have a better chance of finding them at the bar down the street, last two stools...
...with a sickly kid named Danny who suf fers from a weak heart and, to judge by his actions in the movie, a weak head. Danny sticks up for Ben when the nasty policemen want to kill him, even vis its him in his sewer home somewhere under Wilshire Boulevard to warn him that the cops are coming with fire hos es and flamethrowers. Such touching devotion leads to a dewy denouement that paves the way, alas, for still another sequel...