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Directed by ROBERT DOWNEY Screenplay by ROBERT DOWNEY...
...this is strictly according to the gospel of Robert Downey, set down in Greaser's Palace, his funniest, most accomplished and most audacious film yet. Downey's lifelong dedication to assaulting the boundaries of good taste still ends too often in dirty jokes that misfire and a kind of varsity show satire. But with its boundless energy and delirious invention, Greaser's Palace is easily the most adventurous American movie so far this year...
...Downey's Messiah is a vaudevillian, his devil is a figure of preposterous melodrama-a glowering, gun-toting saloonkeeper named Greaser (Albert Henderson) who keeps his mother behind bars ("You'll always be my favorite," she reassures him) and who suffers from chronic constipation. His trips to the privy are state occasions, with his retinue of dim-witted subordinates nervously circling outside, awaiting glad tidings of relief that are never forthcoming...
None of this makes any kind of sense except comic sense. Ebulliently acted, beautifully scored (by Jack Nitzsche), memorably photographed on location in New Mexico, Greaser's Palace has an unrestrained, nutball appeal that is also, finally, its undoing. Downey always goes for a laugh instead of a point. Unlike Luis Bunuel, who also deals in curiously reverential blasphemies, Downey lacks the ruthless, rigorous intellect that gives depth to such flights of fantasy. "Jay Cocks...
...five o'clock one morning last week, job seekers began lining up outside the offices of North American Rockwell's Space Division in Downey, Calif. Within three hours after the employment office opened, more than 500 job applications had been submitted. What had brought them to the small industrial city was NASA'S announcement that North American, the prime contractor on the Apollo program, had won a contract for $2.6 billion to develop the nation's first space shuttle. This is one of the largest single contracts ever received by any company, and should help relieve...