Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SHORTCOMINGS of John Huston's Fat City notwithstanding: it is a movie that tries very hard to succeed. The dialogue is sensitively written. The acting is generally excellent, and Huston's direction has created a remarkably realistic film about people caught in a web of self-deception and defeat. Unfortunately the audience never becomes totally immersed in this world. Despite the thoughtful porrayal of virtually every major and minor character, weaknesses in the development of the plot dampen the overall impact of the picture...
SACK 57. Fat City, 10, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Where Does It Hurt...
...Fat City. John Huston has cut the meat out of Leonard Gardner's fictional slice of the life of small-time boxers in Stockton, California. The characters are like the little people of Depression dramas--you see "em and weep, but they're just not complex enough to keep you interested. Huston's attempts at poetry are only intermittently effective. Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges are good. Susan Tyrell is terrible...
...first hove into view on a Family episode last season. The entire Bunker family fell ill and Maude took over the household-especially Archie ("You can either get up off that couch and eat your breakfast or lie there and feed off your own fat...and if you choose the latter you can probably lie there for months"). The CBS brass was watching and, in Norman Lear's words, "saw a star." A second episode-in effect a pilot -was concocted, in which Archie and Edith visited Maude on the eve of her daughter's wedding...
...Hugh. When it comes to crew the word in the East it comes to the crimson boasts the most impressive record in the East over the last few years, despite the fat that the heavyweights were upset by an upstart Northeastern squad ion last Spring's Eastern Sprint Regatta. The lightweights haven't lost a race in five years, and despite the fact that Steve Gladstone has departed to take over the coaching reins at Berkeley, they look strong. And Harry Parker must be doing something right with his heavyweights when the 14 man U.S. Olympic team boasts eight Harvard...