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...They are like Hope and Crosby, like Laurel and Hardy. They have just the right chemistry," says Director Mark Rydell of his current stars, James Caan and Elliott Gould. On location in Mansfield, Ohio, for the filming of a comedy titled Harry and Walter Go to New York, the pair portray 1890s vaudevillians who end up in prison with an urbane safecracker, played by Michael Caine. Caan and Gould get wind of Caine's plot to break out of jail and into a bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues...
...James Caan, on roller skates, is trying to save the world. This needs a bit of explaining, which is only the beginning of the trouble with Rollerball. Caan, looking unconvinced and uncomfortable, plays Jonathan E., the world's foremost player of rollerball...
ROLLERBALL, about to open, boasts James Caan in a futuristic speculation in which aggression has been channeled into a single deadly team sport...
Jimmy is very close to his family; he has now moved them all to California. His brother, who lives with him in Caan's Beverly Hills home, is a production assistant; his brother-in-law is Jimmy's business manager...
This may be why Caan has so far turned down the chance to direct. "It's been offered, but I'm not ready for it." Acting is his business - not his entire life. His horses are running well. He wants to keep things light, ride through movies with elan. "You know the kind of actor I am?" he asks. "I'm the sort who says before each movie, 'Oh God, give me a break...