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Lewis too was a "monumental person," says Actor Bruce Dern, who is returning to Broadway after nearly two decades on TV and in films (Coming Home). "Lewis accepted the Nobel Prize at age 45, spent the rest of his life trying to live up to that prize, and it finally broke...
PEOPLE WILL see the new play Strangers for Bruce Dern, but they'll be surprised at how the stage softens him, neutralizing the eccentricities on which he has built a fascinating film career. Sherman Yellen's drama, about the stormy relationship between Sinclair Lewis and journalist Dorothy Thompson, might have been written as a dull screen biography of a famous American, but Hollywood stopped investing in those bland tear-jerkers decades ago. So it winds up on Broadway, with a film star intent on "flexing his acting muscles" in a role that taps a fraction of his considerable talents...
King of Marvin Gardens, for the uninitiated (and there are many), is a wonderful and very bizarre film about two brothers--Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern, here originating the psycho role Dern has used for the past six years--who spend a weekend in Atlantic City during the winter. Anyone who has ever been to Atlantic City in the winter knows that it's the most desolate, depressing place on the East Coast (not that it's all that great in summer). Brackman lived there for five years as a child, staying with a grandfather in the hotel business...
...haven't the faintest idea what motivates these two men in modern-day America. Given O'Neal's skill as a driver, the thought keeps occurring that he could be doing just as well, with a lot less hassle, on the stock-car circuit. And Dern's cynicism easily qualifies him for a job behind a big desk at an entertainment conglomerate...
...lose faith in what we all hoped the women's movement would eventually bring about. These women are not heroines of the Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn caliber. Rather, they are weak and confused. There is little doubt that Fonda is going to go back to her husband, Bruce Dern, once he pulls himself together and stops reliving his Vietnam days, pulling out bayonets in the living room and threatening to kill everyone. Yes, her little affair with Voigt, the radical Vietnam paraplegic, was a mind-opening and beautiful experience for her, but is she really going to live a with...