Word: farentino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day, has actually produced an intelligent picture at last. Based on the first half of The Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure...
...scene is shrewdly written, strongly performed. Bedford, the only holdover from the Broadway cast, is the perfect mouse-funny when he squeaks, staggering when he roars. Whenever she is onscreen, Actress Sommars matches him laugh for laugh, and Farentino with never a false step leads the spectator to the clear-eyed conclusion of this wise little comedy: people who use people are the loneliest people in the world...
Separated from Actor James Farentino, she is presently invigorated by George Peppard. "I'm not going to grow up to be a man," she says. "Most actresses do. They're great people, but they're lousy women. They're the classic failures. They're the beautiful people. They're symbols. They feel a lot. They fail as women. To be a good human being, you have to adhere to the ethics of your work. Right? The ethics of the theater is that your personal problems cannot interfere with your work. Actresses have to compromise...