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...only be that Streisand has worn us down out of sheer volume and stubbornness, but she seems to have mellowed. She does not act quite so much like the stepchild of Ethel Merman who spent summers with Mae West. When she does come on, James Caan is available to perform whatever deflation is necessary. Caan, who plays the flashy Broadway impresario Billy Rose to Streisand's Brice, stands up well under the painful effulgence of her superstardom. He is a scrappy actor, always looking for an opening, and he finds his full share of them-or makes them. Only...
...playing the show's martini-mixing Army surgeon, Trapper John, Doc Rogers carries on with a different operation. As head of W.M. Rogers, Inc.-Managed Investments, he takes care of the financial affairs of half a dozen clients (among them Actors Peter Falk and James Caan) and deals with such financiers as Lyons and Los Angeles Industrialist Lawrence Weinberg. Insiders estimate that Rogers' company is worth several million dollars. His holdings-with Falk and others-include apartment buildings, office blocks and a 500-acre California vineyard-the largest planting of merlot grapes in the world...
...Hollywood's unemployment office. His first venture was the purchase of an office building in foreclosure, and he still follows the pattern of seeking out money-losing buildings and putting them back in the black. A few of his clients have also been salvage cases. Says Caan: "Wayne stepped in and pulled me up by the bootstraps...
...step right up and meet Axel (James Caan), the gambler as existential hero, a man determined to risk not only money but the love of family, a good woman (Lauren Hutton) and self...
...Caan, he is too trim and cool ever to make us believe that he is more interesting than any other spoiled child. To be sure, he is attempting a difficult thing -acting out the role of gratuitous self-torture -but his performance is never really as vertiginously mad as it should be. The whole film is just a fantasy about going crazy, a fantasy never for a moment in danger of becoming the genuine article...