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...make Buddy unlikable or even sometimes gross. Special attention should also be paid to one of Duddy's most elaborate schemes: hiring a perennially drunken and pompous British film maker in exile to make bar mitzvah movies for doting parents. The film maker is played by Denholm Elliott, who is hilariously disheveled and polluted nearly past the point of pretension, a characterization of enormous comic skill. His bar mitzvah production is a triumphant, unconscious (on his part) parody combining the most tiresome features of the anthropological and popular front documentaries of another time. Beethoven's Fifth provides...
...casinos frequented by its two lead characters, a pair of compulsive gamblers. Nor does it happen at the racetrack or boxing ring or other betting locales the two visit. It has nothing to do with the relationship between the two characters, Bill and Charlie (played by George Segal and Elliott Gould), nor with their dealings with the couple of prostitutes Charlie lives with...
...minority governments. Nearly every Western nation, from Britain to Italy to Denmark, was being run by minority or coalition governments narrowly holding on to power. Canada, which had been without a majority party since 1972, seemed only one more among their number. But this week Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau will lead into office a Liberal government with a margin that should be large enough to assure a full five-year term...
...plan to marry Elliott Gould," announced Actress Jennifer O'Neill. A couple of weeks ago Jennifer took Old Pal Elliott to her parents' wedding anniversary, and Gould found his wavering faith in marriage renewed. Now he and Jennifer plan to wed in a month's time. That is, after quick divorces from their respective spouses. Elliott is inarticulate about what went wrong with his companion of five years and wife of six months, Jenny Bogart, with whom he has two children. Said Jennifer gamely: "A lot of people think Elliott is crazy. But I love...
...Died. Elliott Sullivan, 66, durable stage (Brigadoon, Compulsion) and film (The Roaring Twenties, Yankee Doodle Dandy) actor; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Accused of Communist affiliations, Sullivan was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Sullivan refused to testify, invoking the First Amendment freedoms of speech and assembly. Indicted for contempt of Congress, he was acquitted on a technicality...