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Word: canninesss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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...Competition. The loutishness of this film is hilarious, but Scott's participation is sobering and depressing. He acts very badly here. Perhaps the only mark of his actor's canninesss is that he has surrounded himself with players who give him no competition. Van Devere (Scott's wife offscreen) delivers. under what must have been her husband's guidance, the most ruthlessly embarrassing hysterics since Marilyn Monroe's desert outburst in The Misfits. Carson, similarly clumsy, suggests not so much the primitive life as a somewhat furtive one, say, in late-night doorways on Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unnatural Acts | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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