Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are, of course, other things around, such as GODSPELL, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, and COMING OUT. But with the Frvin Committee hearings coming out you're best advised to wait...
...which he hopes to beat the role into submission. His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism. Of course, he is burdened with a role that is rather too severely sentimentalized. His Walter is blood kin to Pookie Adams of The Sterile Cuckoo (which represents the previous collaboration of Director Pakula and Scenarist Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness and the fear that his relationship with Miss Fisher ought to have changed. He begins to act a good...
...cherished on visits to rural small towns--the one she hopes movies won't estrange us from more than urban living already has. I think that this nostalgia sometimes gets in her way, confused her sense signals. When she calls the gangling, gifted loser Pookie Adams (of A Sterile Cuckoo) "a resonant American archetype," I get the feeling that she has gone overboard on her identification. Or perhaps it is just that hitting so hard at Hollywood for so long has made her desperate for something to like. So she lingers over this plain wallflower movie not because...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. What break from a weekend in Cambridge could be more complete than a night in an asylum? 7:30 at the Charles St. Playhouse...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. If you haven't seen it by this time (I haven't), there's presumably no hope for you. At the Charles Street Playhouse...