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...fleetingly as possible. It is a comedy thriller gone awry, vulgar, lifeless and maladroit. The script is by Ernest Lehman, who wrote the witty screenplay for Hitchcock's sumptuous self-parody, North by Northwest. Here the writing is less like satire than putdown. At one point, Bruce Dern, who plays a scuffling actor/cab driver named Lumley, grouses to his girl friend, a self-proclaimed medium: "You've really got me by the crystal balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grave Error | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

Family Plot. (at the Sack Savoy, Boston). Hitchcock at 78 is still better than anyone else, anytime. This film combines dextrous suspense with a broad humor uncharacteristic of Hitchcock's usual perverse sensibilities. Bruce Dern seems to finally ascending to the position as a major American star that has been predicted for him for years. Dern has cornered the market on self-conscious, self-deluding characters; the locus classicus of such types is California which Hitchcock has portrayed as a land of fast-food joints, endless highways and depraved small towns--in other words, accurately...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

Some hate King of Marvin Gardens Go suck an egg. It is a great find if you haven't found it yet. Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn and a smashingly beautiful girl (whose name we can't come up with but who does the sexiest tap-dance ever) make up the small society in this Rafelson risk...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...beauty and freeways. Smile was released about a year ago, and because of some kind of distribution problems, hasn't made it to a lot of theatres. The focus of the movie is a state beauty pageant managed by Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame) and judged by Bruce Dern, but that's just a jumping off point for an examination of the so-called community of Santa Rosa. The comic sensibility of director Michael Ritchie, who did Downhill Racer and The Candidate, is not quite as cynical as I'd like it to be, but you can't have...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: CELLULOID AND POPCORN | 2/12/1976 | See Source »

There she was, sounding like a sightseeing bus driver. Actress-Singer Ann-Margret, 34, had come to Paris for a part in Director Claude Chabrol's new movie Crazy Bourgeoisie, a pillow comedy co-starring Bruce Dern and Stephane Audran. Between scenes for her cameo role as a philandering translator, the actress did some Paris sightseeing. "Wherever you go there are always these fabulous restaurants or monuments or boutiques," she commented, displaying her celebrated eye for detail. Ann-Margret added that she had picked up at least one extravagant souvenir during her travels-a mink coat for Husband-Manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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