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...Bergen, her progress from dithery housewife putting fantasies on paper to multimedia celebrity, living out the American fantasy of success, is gorgeously bold. Her bravura is entirely selfconscious, but this once bland beauty has become one of the screen's most arresting comedians. Somehow she manages to stay likable-maybe even lovable-no matter how her character uses and abuses friends and relatives on her way to the top, which is defined here as a good old-fashioned suite in the Waldorf Towers...
...government, Georgakas writes, is guilty of outright lying about the hazards of living near nuclear plants, and of callous insensitivity to government employees whose health was irreparably damaged by exposure to nuclear wastes, among them the army units dispatched during the 1950's into radioactive zones in a bravura effort by the U.S. to demonstrate safety. "Cancer rates among the exposed men have been far above the statistical norm, yet the afflicted soldiers have found it impossible to obtain government compensation. The same situation is likely to hold true for the eventual victims of the Three Mile Island incident...
...production features a bravura portrayal of Managing Editor Walter Burns by Veteran Actor John Randolph (who as a real-life Bronx correspondent for the New York Post once reported the burning-down of his family home-"and rewrite got the facts wrong"). Alas, though the pay ($300 a week) is relatively generous, the Santa Fe Festival Theater can attract few middle-aged supporting actors. Thus timeworn newsroom veterans are played by men mostly in their 30s who appear to be in their 20s. That casting undoes a work as grubbily detailed as The Front Page...
...like that all week, and Reagan's bravura performance won rave notices not only from friends but from once and, no doubt, future foes. One event that symbolized the earnest good fellowship of the Reagan mission to Washington occurred on Wednesday afternoon, when a beat-up Pontiac brought Senator Ted Kennedy to call on the out-of-towner. For 30 minutes, Kennedy and Reagan talked about issues that the Senator felt important, such as arms limitation and getting people back to work. Reagan was attentive but noncommittal. Then Kennedy emerged to explain his visit to reporters: "I believe...
...whispering apology, De Niro is always absorbing and credible, even when his character isn't. When the film is moving on automatic pilot, De Niro is still sailing on animal energy, carrying his able, unknown co-stars with him. Perhaps this should be enough for a movie: bravura acting paired with dazzling, hyperkinetic direction. Why look a gift Bull in the mouth...