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...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...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Kael-aesthetics | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 3/29/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 3/15/1973 | See Source »

...Hard Feelings. Except on the part of the audience. With Eddie Albert and Nanette Fabray, at the Colonial Theater. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Fun and games in a lunatic asylum. From Ken Kesey's novel, and reportedly very good. At the Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton St., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...Jesse is not only a public nuisance but a threat to the campaign. Jesse's real interest lies in consorting with a group of benign crazies (Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and John Savage) in a plot to get a behemoth airship off the ground. Destination: some political Cloud Cuckoo-land where there are no hassles, no jails, no discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Radical Chic | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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