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...attitude: "This is the meaning of a free press. They're certainly entitled to print any criticism they want." One network executive takes the same elitist stance that angers Buchanan: "No one with an IQ over 70 reads anything in TV Guide except the listings." Which is a cute quip, but not quite accurate; network brass read the magazine with interest, if not affection...
...first the premise seems perilously cute. The time is "nippy fall, 1973," and the ladies of the "Long Island Masque and Wig Society" gather to run through a rehearsal of their latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...
Section 18, long the notoriously rowdy area at Watson Rink, should take note. The Harvard players do not appreciate similarly immature behavior while on the road. Swearing, spitting and throwing things on the ice certainly do not enhance the Crimson's performance. It's not cute, funny or endearing. Maturity, not stupidity, should perdominate...
...whore (well acted by Marsha Mason) does not, at least, have a heart of gold. What she does have is a consuming pathology that the sailor finds irresistibly attractive. If furies of masochism lash at him, though, they are not gone into. Cinderella Liberty wants to be cute and sentimental and tries very hard to turn behavior like child desertion into the stuff of melancholy whimsy. All during this gruesome exercise there are some sharp supporting performances, notably by Allyn Ann McLerie as a snippy social worker and Allan Arbus and David Proval as a couple of Navymen. James Caan...
...talking dolphin, is cute, graceful and quite lovely to watch. Since Day of the Dolphin contains no threatening or challenging scene or idea, it might be considered a good family movie. But only for families who feast on pablum...