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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADAPTATION-NEXT. Elaine May's Adaptation and Terrence McNally's Next are a happy combination of funny one-acters. Both plays are directed by Miss May with her usual wit and comic perception...
Western parodies are nothing new, but this film derives unique strength from the comic gifts of its two stars. Paul Newman is ingratiating as Butch Cassidy, the dubious "brains" of the team. In the past, no matter how hard he has tried, Paul Newman has ended up in Paul Newman roles. He always seems larger and more laconic than life. This time he does better by playing a slightly inept chatterbox, not very tough and not very mean. Aside from his affability and formidable name, Butch Cassidy might have escaped from a Woody Allen monologue. Polite and considerate, he would...
...role of the Sundance Kid. As a cold-blooded killer, he bears little resemblance to the whining husband of Barefoot in the Park. His moustache droops, for one thing. He grunts, bites bullets, and shoots people (mostly Bolivians) with laughable accuracy. Both Newman and Redford bring sharp comic timing to the title roles, but Sundance is the more remarkable creation. He's chilling and funny at the same time...
...original comic flair reappears briefly, and ironically, at the end of the film. Badly wounded and half-choked on their own blood. Butch and Sundance still keep up the banter and prepare to shoot it out with the local constabulary. They do not yet know that the Bolivian army, not a few policemen, are moving into position around their shelter. They blithely step outside into the volleys of hundreds of rifles. It makes for a macabre but funny death scene-not so maudlin as we were led to expect-and satirizes a similar scene from Bonnie and Clyde...
...here again so after two weeks of basically exhibition predictions it's time for the real thing. I regret that I haven't been doing better than 600 in my picks, but those of you who follow the comes will notice that for the first time in modern comic strip history, the Jackson Twins were wrong too. And it Jan and Jill can give some bad advice. I figure those of us who are less perfect are entitled to an occasional error...