Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Late Show at noon, 3:50, and 7:50, with Chinatown at 1:35, 5:30, 9:40. Midnight Show: Nashville...
...marriage made in the Super Bowl. Producer Bob Evans (Godfather I and II, Chinatown, Love Story) was in Miami filming Black Sunday when he met CBS Sportscaster Phyllis George, once a North Texas State cheerleader and Miss America of 1971. Although the thrice-married (most recently to AM MacGraw) Evans had firmly declared that "three times to bat is quite enough," Bob, 46, and Phyllis, 27, were married last week on the lawn of his Beverly Hills mansion. In a specially composed ceremony the minister sang: "Together you step from the darkness/ The sun is beginning to rise...
...Peter Finch's letter perfect impersonation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find... nothing. The film is as sterile as a 30 second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Best Actress award for Chinatown, not this lemon. Peter Finch is dead, and far be it from us to talk about the dead. William Holden turns in a solid performance as the network news chief, but the dignified Holden comes off rather like a Shetland pony in an 8 x 11 porno still-he looks...
Even in such a sybaritic place as Hollywood, where reality so often surpasses make-believe, Director Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown) ranks as a startling character. He was the husband of Manson Murder Victim Sharon Tate, and his life has had elements as dark and quixotic as his art. He is now working on a movie version of The First Deadly Sin, which portrays a business executive obsessed with sexual perversion and homicide. Thus it was hardly theater of the absurd that Polanski, 43, should find himself arrested in the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and accused...
...Chinatown. This is the only film made in American in recent years which compares in insight and emotional power to the Hollywood films of the 30s and 40s. (I include the work of Robert Altman). Polanski turns the traditional detective film on its head. Chinatown is really about the education of Jack Nicholson, who as the film develops learns more and more about the structure of power in Los Angeles, but discovers that the more he knows the less he can help Faye Dunaway. A very pessimistic perspective, but very effective...