Word: chinatown
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...affable tailor's dummy of a man, who wears a hairnet and a moustache band to sleep every night, and whose moustache, indeed, doesn't move when he talks. Poirot is not the coolest of detectives; he's always in control of the situation (this is no Chinatown or Maltese Falcon) but he doesn't care to keep his voice down--sometimes he screams to provoke his diffident witnesses, sometimes he just chortles in glee. "There are too many clues in this room" he sings out in a high-pitched warble as he makes his first inspection of the murder...
...CHINATOWN. The year's most skilled and elegant Hollywood entertainment. A Los Angeles private eye (sardonically played by Jack Nicholson) stumbles into a slough of personal and political corruption. The movie is a lambent caution about the dread but immutable uses of wealth and power...
After the Fall. It's hard to get excited about Faye Dunaway in a heavy role (her dramatic stuff is usually pseudo-searing, and at least several notches bellow the quality of the material), but after "Chinatown," maybe she deserves another chance. Christopher Plummer co-stars in this Arthur Miller play. (After typing all this, I just realized the show will only appear on Providence, R.I. television. Visit a friend at Brown or tie a kite to your antenna. Or just forget the whole thing.) Ch. 10, 8:30 p.m. 2 1/2 hours...
...that he said things like "Filipinos come quick" or "Are there any niggers out there tonight," but that his satire was directed against the wrong culture and the wrong god. It would have been fine to make fun of the fat, funny Buddha, the god who's sold in Chinatown as a piggy bank. After all, did anyone ever bring Jerry Lewis to court for his buck teeth imitation of the Japanese? But Bruce made the mistake of choosing the Western god, the "right" god, as target, and that was criminal...
...Chinatown, 7:15, 9:30, weekends...