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...craftsmanship. His characters, while not as clearly defined as possible, are believable, even if their settings are not, and King has the sharp visual acuity of a filmmaker as he shifts time and space to effect. His faults are few, but they're major: he is both overly cute and excessive. The latter is his undoing. He lacks the keen awareness that less is indeed more, pushing his hefty narratives far past the point of credence, and ultimately, enjoyment, as if a book had to weigh a lot to be good...
...early age." With similar insight, Mellow describes how, on unexpected occasions, the child would declaim a line from Richard III: "Stand back, my Lord, and let the coffin pass!" This, Mellow maintains, proves that the young Hawthorne "had a dramatic instinct for the lugubrious." These stories are cute, and like most family anecdotes the first few serve their purpose when no real information survives. Nevertheless, they reveal little of substance about the character of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like much of Mellow's book, they are unnecessarily detailed and frustratingly superficial...
...Robert Redford and Jane Fonda liberated a Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia, fistfight and car crash in Kansas City, loving and leaving in the Rockies, reconciliation in California. At the fadeout, man, woman and cows are all contented...
...Benjamin pretends to be about feminine consciousness and identity, about a woman "finding herself" in a man's world, but its silliness and simplicity insults all feminists, male and female. Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) is an airhead. A Jewish American Princess, she's not funny and she's not cute; she'd not even pitiful--just plain dumb...
...point where venality is the benefit of the doubt, you are on very shaky artistic ground indeed. There are those people who love to see children on the screen, and they will love Gloria--they will see John Adames and leave the theater saying, "Oh, he's so cute." He's not so cute. Often, he is grotesque...