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...holds the screen alone for so much of the film and so dominates it even when Ann appears that the film seems to be a celluloid diary of Susan's life as a young woman in New York. It's true to the city, and offers some well executed cameo roles of gallery owners and Soho artistes, but it's just pleasant viewing after a while. The layers of supporting characters and incidental situations distract whatever attention the friendship might have drawn...
They have plenty of help from some very well known human friends. "My kids gave me a proposition I couldn't resist-do it or else," says Telly Savalas of his cameo as the barroom brawler who is intolerant of warts. Other humanoid notables in the cast are Orson Welles, Bob Hope, Richard Pryor and Dom DeLuise. But to the Muppets' 235 million worldwide fans, the real heros of all this silliness are sensitive Kermit the Frog; his friend Fozzie, the stumbling bear; Miss Piggy, the porcine blonde caught achingly between show-biz ambition and true love...
...portrayal of humiliation.) The film has a great deal of violence, and a long, agonizing sequence in which Voight tortuously scales the face of a cliff. But ultimately "Deliverance" is most upsetting in its suggestion that civilize man has lost his primitive self-sufficiency. James Dickey has a chilling cameo as a small town sheriff; and yes, this is the movie that made "Dueling Banjos" a hit. (Though purists will note that the duel is actually between a banjo and a guitar...
...theater group has an advisory board of faculty and administrators. W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen and one of the board members, said yesterday he believes "Shakespeare is something we should have here." Young has a cameo role in "Measure for Measure," playing a drunkard...
Reiner probably knows what a wet noodle movie he's directed, and in a cameo appearance in Oh God! (as a guest on the Dinah Shore Show where Denver's character is being interviewed about his encounter with God), Reiner is reduced to making a series of funny faces into the camera, a pitifully desperate attempt for laughs...