Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congruities; that's what Colin Higgins did for much of the time in his not dissimilar Foul Play. But Screenwriter Reginald Rose, best known for TV's Twelve Angry Men and The Defenders, is not Mr. Light Touch. The film's only flair comes from Director Lamont Johnson, who tries to force-feed sophistication into the proceedings. Johnson has shot the film at a fast pace in romantic Manhattan locations, and he has recruited outstanding stage actors, notably John Wood and John Glover, for the secondary roles. He provides at least the illusion of slickness...
Unfortunately, the director has been less successful with his leading man. Though Johnson and Bridges worked triumphantly together in The Last American Hero, the actor loses control here. He works so hard at being winsome that he inadvertently parodies Richard Dreyfuss's performance in The Goodbye Girl. Maybe Bridges is overacting to compensate for his co-star's nonacting, but, in this case, discretion clearly would have been the better part of valor...
...briefing for National Cancer Institute staffers in Washington last week, Director Arthur Upton reviewed the NCI's progress and goals, and then quietly dropped a bombshell: the institute plans a $250,000 test on humans of the controversial cancer drug Laetrile...
...that Fonda turns his back on his movie past. It is full of "moments," if not full roles, that he relishes. Director John Ford, for whom he worked seven times, was a major influence: "If there is a style that emerged from that group of actors who worked repeatedly with Ford, it was a certain spareness. You learned to rein in your emotions. If they're there, they are going to color your voice, show in your face, the way you move...
...homes to live in a hotel. I've done a lot of theater because I want to. If I'm away from it for a while I miss the audience contact, and even more the joy of creating something from start to finish. Film is still a director's medium...