Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frankenstein's monster is Peter Boyle (Joe), an actor wonderfully deft at being clumsy. The movie galvanizes just about the time of his appearance. Boyle shows up in, and helps make work, the two sharpest scenes: an encounter with a blind hermit (Gene Hackman, doing a dexterous comic cameo), in which the monster is assaulted by the hermit's well-intentioned blundering; and a brief foray into show biz, in which Frankenstein and his creation put on a fractured vaudeville. Brooks is always at his best making fun of the delicious stupidities of popular entertainment (recall Springtime...
...television sitcoms in the 1950s had been about blacks, they would have looked very much like Amazing Grace, a wheezy little family comedy starring "Moms" Mabley. Such excellent actors as Rosalind Cash and Moses Gunn are also lurking in the vicinity, and there are a couple of cameo appearances-for camp and sentimental value-by Stepin Fetchit and Butterfly McQueen. But the movie is clearly a vehicle for Moms...
...Harlem in the 1920s with a stentorian narration by Actor Brock Peters, is the most traditional of the group. It struggles to compress a decade of black his tory into 30 minutes, and still man ages to repeat itself. Film Editor Mirra Banks' Yudie is a loving cameo of her Jewish aunt, observant and a little mel ancholy. An Old-Fashioned Woman offers a mellow and admiring portrait of Documentary Director Martha Coolidge's Grandmother, a redoubtable 86-year-old Yankee. She not only reminisces and airs her views on birth control and abortion (she is for both...
...Lindsay will appear once a week as a guest commentator and interviewer. After many years' experience in amateur theatricals, Including political conventions, Matinee Idol Lindsay will also make his movie debut soon. This week in Paris he joins the cast of Otto Preminger's Rosebud, playing a cameo role for which he probably feels well rehearsed-that of a U.S. Senator. He wouldn't say whom he is modeling his performance on, "The part is a tiny bit pompous, so I have much to choose from." The film is just a diversion ("Traveling in Europe," he explained...
This adaptation of one of Henry James' shortest and most popular works contains, in cameo, a theme that winds through more elaborate novels like The Ambassadors: the ineluctable tension between European and American cultures that leads to corruption. What Peter Bogdanovich's movie is mostly about, however, is flirting...