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APPEARING FINALLY in the last scene, James Dolbeare makes a hilariously corny yet forthright Jim. Saddled with old-fashioned attempts at sensitivity and a gosh-gee-well vocabulary, he gives a winning performance as the simple, clear-minded alien visitor to this stifling, decaying planet...
...done, more experienced, more dynamic, more attractive looking, a better campaigner with a better staff. He is not only credited with having a better personality but also, despite the continuing echoes of Chappaquiddick, with being better "in times of crisis." He is, however, rated less trustworthy, less honest and forthright, less morally upright, and not as good a family man as Carter...
Podhoretz' book, written as an expanded letter to his own son, describes both his personal political attitudes and America's during the past 30 years. He is not confessional or apologetic but doggedly forthright as he discusses the forces that convinced him to turn from liberalism in the 1950's to radicalism in the 60's and finally to the opposition of the New Left and the counter culture...
...until the Frey character meets another young woman (Nicole Jamet) and sets about turning the maison a trois into a maison a quatre. Needless to say he doesn't bother to explain the rules and arrangements to the new recruit, and much unhappiness results from this lack of forthright communication. Eventually, because this is supposed to be a comedy, things are set to order (the new girl stays), and everyone settles down to a mutual misunderstanding...
...believe that Housekeeper Frey may be a good deal more psychotic in his motivations than the movie cares to admit openly, while his male companion may be somewhat more than charmingly antisocial in some of his. The movie is, finally, quite dishonest: an antibourgeois tract that is far from forthright in admitting where it's coming from or what it's aiming at. When the chuckles die, what remains is an uncertain moral and a certain queasiness...