Word: connessed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relevance of art. What has grown in the gap left by Dada's failed promise is not only the staunchness of the New Conservatives but also a dangerously pre-emptive sort of subjectivism in contemporary criticism. Here, the critic assumes that his job is to smell out the con. So what he likes he deems "real art," what he doesn't is "anti-art" or "non-art." But this means that when a certain critic goes against the grain of the general consensus and pronounces something "bad" already determined by the others to be "good," he is not only panning...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...
...Midwestern vistas and old time hotels. And indeed, Paper Moon is often at its best. Ryan O'Neal and his real life ten-year-old daughter, Tatum, successfully play a May-December couple who travel through depression Kansas trying to scrape by until they pull off a big enough con game to retire for life. Their travels are like an up-river adventure, each bend offering an old town to back-drop their money making schemes...
Bogdanovich rescues you from the murky waters of loss with the comedy of a rambunctious ten-year-old running devious circles around a man old enough to be her father. The funniest parts of the film are the con-games they play--Ryan double talking to confuse the dupe, Tatum crying to win his sympathies...
Paper Moon. Lots of tears wrung out of the story directed by Peter Bogdanovitch about the chumming up of a team as old and as wet as the thirties. Ryan O'Neal plays a con man who makes a fast-talking living by selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow...