Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands of Bogdanovich and his scenarist, the material is gutted of charm. It becomes a sort of attenuated general-store yarn about a bunko artist named Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) and a nine-year-old girl, Addie (played by O'Neal's daughter Tatum), who team up to fleece the citizens of Kansas and Missouri. The relationship between the older man and the girl, who may or may not be father and daughter, is grudgingly respectful and guardedly affectionate. They start off trying to fox and swindle each other, and the girl actually runs an elaborate...
...husband, whom she married in 1957-was one of Nixon's closest advisers. Martha delighted in sounding off against anyone to the left of William McKinley -Senator J. William Fulbright, for example, should be "crucified." Few took any of this too seriously, for Martha had a certain wacky charm...
...honest and strangely accurate. He can make Armageddon fascinating, and even his most psychotic visions are driven by a tough, even slightly old-fashioned sensibility--somehow we sense a practical aptitude for survival in his crazed, technicolor world of fear and loathing. What is rather disconcerting about the manic charm of his apocalyptic perception is that the line between reality and his hallucinatory interpretation of it is getting thinner every...
...candor and excellent performances by the cast make the familiar inhabitants of this smoky, battered memory sympathetic, rather than corny. Since her husband, a telephone man "in love with distance," skipped St. Louis, Amanda Wingfield (Melissa Mueller) has ruled her son and daughter with badgering questions and faded Southern charm. With bent wrist gestures pursed lips and an admirably even accent. Mueller aggravates Tom with admonitions that he smokes too much and chews his food too little, and tortures shy Laura with reminiscences of her years as a belle in Blue Mountain...
CENTRAL II The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie 6, 9:30 Walkabout 7:50, weekend...