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NONE OF THE stars right now exudes virginity. Katherine Ross, maybe. But Dunaway? Fonda? Ali McGraw? Deneuve? Certainly not Deneuve. Still, they are somewhat traditional. They will sleep with you, but they have to love you, at least at the moment. They have to really believe they love...
...talent, plays the piano to accompany her. They fall in love, of course, and it's a scene that is something to see. The passion of two middle-aged failures finally breaking through the lone-liness of their lives can be much more exciting than Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway playing an erotic game of chess...
...nice when things go smoothly on a movie set-when temperament doesn't rise up and take over. Note the scene in Italy, for instance, where Marcello Mastroianni, 43, and Faye Dunaway, 27, are filming A Place for Lovers for Vittorio De Sica. She helps him with his English. He helps her with Italian slang. They both help each other with their diets. They trade compliments: he likes her eyebrows, she likes making movies in his country. And there haven't even been any of those snippy romance-is-in-the-air rumors buzzing around. Says Faye...
...Steve McQueen) is a Boston tycoon with a brilliant criminal mind. Uneasy lies the Crown that wears a head. To pique the Establishment that he is part of, he hires some crooks and stages a flawless $2,660,527.62 robbery that leaves the police without a clue. Enter Faye Dunaway, girl insurance investigator who has slept her way to the top of the business...
Impeded by a script that has lines like "It's my funeral; you're just along for the ride," McQueen stops acting and settles for a series of long poses. Dunaway, hired before Bonnie and Clyde was released, is used solely as a clotheshorse out for a long gambol. Giving his film a "now" look and his characters an ironic, detached air, Director Jewison obviously hoped to play his movie cool. But there are several degrees between cool and frigid: a degree of wit, a degree of plot and a degree of that old unbuyable, style. Their absence...