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...BOBBY DEERFIELD Directed by Sydney Pollack Screenplay by Alvin Sargent Romance is a function of frustration...
...Bobby Deerfield, which might have been subtitled "A Mortality Play," offers an intelligent and quite moving solution to this problem by using the title character's obsessive preoccupation with the possibility of his own demise (and his attempts to deny that preoccupation through a studied lack of affect) as a means of dulling the romantic impulse. Deerfield is a star racing driver whose success is based on a superrationality that requires a cutting off of all emotion. But then a car that is the twin of Deerfield's spins out of control, its driver is horribly hurt...
...does not want to make Bobby Deerfield sound like heavy going. Director Pollack has almost flawlessly understated its case. The Europe through which his couple move is one of soft colors, handsome but not overawing. And in Al Pacino he has one of the few actors who can play narcissism without seeming to be a lummox, while Marthe Keller finds a steely spine in her characterization of what might have been your standard movie kook. She is vulnerable without being pathetic, compelling without being neurotic...
...nothing more to do," says Swiss-born Actress Marthe Keller. Her ultimate film experience was playing a vampish Hollywood star called Fedora, who has something in her of Garbo, Dietrich and Gloria Swanson. After working non-stop for a year and a half (earlier films: Black Sunday, Bobby Deerfield), Marthe, 33, has been resting in her Left Bank mansion in Paris. This week she will return to Manhattan and the apartment she shares with Actor Al Pacino. When she is ready to work again, it may be back to the boards. Says Marthe: "My only dream is to go back...
...broker, and his wife Stephanie, 24, searched for three months for a house on Chicago's suburban North Shore, where Stephanie grew up, but found that "the minimum for a bungalow is $70,000 to $80,000." They have now about decided to buy a bigger, older house in Deerfield, Ill, for $71,000. Stephanie's parents will chip in part of the $14,000 down payment, and monthly payments for principal, interest and taxes alone will come to $560. Laments Stephanie: "Those payments are not most of our budget?they are all of our budget." To help swing...