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This may have been the point-a naturalistic musical in a fairy-tale setting. But none of the cast is either energetic or winning enough to make that interpretation believable. Even the few with musical training-like Kahn or Eileen Brennan, who appears as a crony of Shepherd's-flounder badly. Bogdanovich directs with such headlong uncertainty that obviously satiric numbers (Give Me a Primitive Man) come to look more like self-parody. The sets and costumes are of such resplendent ugliness that they go beyond campiness...
...star, Burt Reynolds, is just as bad--he whispers rather than sings and his dancing is so inept that Bogdanovich has cropped his body at the knee most of the time. The rest of the cast--Bogdanovich standbys like Madeline Kahn and Mildred Natwick--do better, and Eileen Brennan is even good. It's a pity she didn't get top billing...
...Edward Everett Horton to show off his own urbanity. Reynold's counterpart to Horton is his mother, normally silly Mildred Natwick, who breezes in and out in two scenes with exceptional sanity, leaving Reynolds only his own acting ability to prove his sophistication. Unfortunately, that's not enough. Eileen Brennan as a crass, nymphomaniacal maid is a welcome counterpart to Shepherd. But Cybill still insists on gimmicks like crescendoing off-key "Or is it at long last love?" and then sticking her tongue into her cheek, shrugging her shoulders and giggling...
Dunlop, who was nominated by President Ford to succeed Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan, was dean of the Faculty from July 1970 to January 1973 at Harvard...
...first social appearance outside San Clemente came two weeks ago near Palm Springs, Calif., at the opulent estate of Walter Annenberg, former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain and a longtime Nixon friend. Nixon and Pat arrived with the ex-President's military aide, Marine Colonel Jack Brennan, and six Secret Service men in tow. Nixon's recovery from surgery last October has been gradual, and he occasionally favors his left leg, but he managed to play two holes of golf on Annenberg's private 18-hole course; his swing was surprisingly good, and there was no sign...