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John P. Corr, columnist and feature writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer; Thomas J. Dolan, investigative reporter for The Chicago Sun-Times; Sheryl A. Fitzgerald, features editor, The Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va.; David V. Hawpe, associate editor and editorial writer, The Courier-Journal, Louisville...
Mary Parkman Peabody, LL.D., civil rights activist. Marietta Tree, LL.D., former United States delegate to the United Nations. Frances FitzGerald, Litt.D., author (Fire in the Lake...
...action but the joke in its reverberations; it puns off not the sense but the sensibility of the thing, a game of doublethink. But the self-consciousness of this movie is solipsistic. It is so linear in the literalness of its interpretation that it two-times rather than doublethinks Fitzgerald's story--it's all copycat. Fitzgerald might be the magic mountain and the movie-makers the mouse, for it's loyal to the letter of Fitzgerald's descriptions as if making up for having missed his meanings. And it plods over those like a half-blind elephant...
...army canteen, everybody gets some: Mr. Gats gets some of Carroway's, Carroway is made to speak what had been silent observation, Daisy and Gatsby even get to act out some of Jordan Baker's. Further, the movie hardhits you with scenery, the shining shots like shiner punches at Fitzgerald. And it fumbles facial close-ups--as if a picture of a face, especially a face as blank as Redford's, could tell of the mind...
...what is left of poor Fitzgerald is the presence of money, nay, more a proclamation than a presence. The movie, finally, is not unlike an early Newport mansion for a new-monied man. It plasters gold on its surface in true gargoyle style; the pictures too perfectly partake of the New Port pretensions they are supposed to reveal. The movie stands as a tabloid monument to social climbing America--too much of it too new, too raw-nozed, its jaw somehow too square and too set. So completely lacking is it in the distinctions of taste and tradition, so uneducated...