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When I was a boy (circa 1925), I believed Jimmy Walker was the greatest! He was from Greenwich Village; he was fast with a one-liner; he was a "con" man and a lousy mayor of New York. Now we have a repeat: Ed Koch...
...plot might sound sudsy but it has a sting unknown to the soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...
...match his gift. Or perhaps he likes being the best thing about a picture, since he functioned as his own producer on Bustin' Loose, and it is, if anything, more inept -certainly more overtly sentimental -than his other films. In his new movie Pryor plays a sometime con, forced by his parole officer to drive a bus from Philadelphia to the State of Washington if he wishes to avoid a return to jail. The passengers are the lawman's fiancée (Cicely Tyson) and a group of variously troubled, and variously adorable, children, whose orphanage has been...
...members of the association exchange doubts and suspicions. They show signs of addiction to amphetamines Quentin gives them as part of mystical rites that have become central to the Autobiographical Association. Their struggles for sanity and survival as they succumb to Quentin's mysterious manipulations--part of an elaborate con-game--become farcical and charming. Spark's talent for dialogue and vacuous wit blooms, fertilized by the increasingly hilarious improbable set of characters and situations...
...statement prepared by Ross Boylan '81-3; con statement prepared by Howard Pomeranz...