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Puzzle of a Downfall Child is the one about the agonies of a high-fashion model. Played as unregenerate soap opera-like Doctors' Wives, for example (see following story)-it might have been diverting enough. But Director Jerry Schatzberg, Scenarist Adrien Joyce and Star Faye Dunaway are resolutely serious about every single moment, and the result is embarrassment. Miss Dunaway plays (quite badly) a manic fashion mannequin named Lou Andreas Sand, whose beauty and psyche crumble under the assorted and predictable pressures of the Big Time in New York. Even her language becomes stylized and stilted...
...role, shuttling incessantly from the red to the white side, Dustin Hoffman adopts precisely the right attitude of bewildered reality lost in myth, a photograph projected on a Frederic Remington painting. Unhappily, not all the cast is as comfortable in their roles. Some of the whites, such as Faye Dunaway as a preacher's oestrous wife, and Martin Balsam as a bunco artist, play like fugitives from a road company of The Drunkard, with galvanic gestures and frozen speech patterns. The Human Beings, by contrast, are a people of dignity and variety. Among them are the homosexual Little Horse...
Bonnie and Clyde was the next step. Says Weir: "I saw Faye Dunaway in those soft sweaters and long skirts and those cunning little berets, and I thought that was one of the greatest things I'd ever seen." Fairchild and Brady thought so too, and WWD swung into action. "We weren't promoting the fashion," Weir insists. "We just went around Seventh Avenue and kept asking everybody if they were doing anything with it. And then, you know, there was a sort of chain reaction and we reported what was going on." WWD used plenty of space to report...
...film he made had not proved to be woefully inept, its theme might have made it grand, tragic and compellingly romantic. As it is, it merely gives Faye Dunaway a chance for a last, torpid, tuberculous fling. TB may or may not be the unnamed mortal disease that she has. She behaves pretty much like a willful child playing hooky from the sanatorium. As her erotic partner, Marcello Mastroianni displays all the zest of a man summoned up for tax evasion. He appears to be lipreading his English, although the script seems to find the language just about as alien...
...western to end all westerns, the film has George Armstrong Custer, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill among its characters. But they all seem tame compared with the types portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam and Faye Dunaway. In Little Big Man, from Thomas Berger's picaresque novel, Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times...