Word: gazzara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Husbands (1970). John Cassavetes's powerful, partially improvised film. With Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara. Ch. 7, 11:30 p.m. 2 1/2 hours...
...Falks shun the cocktail-party circuit, but their small circle of friends includes his Husbands buddies, Director John Cassavetes and Actor Ben Gazzara, as well as Mike Nichols, Elaine May and M-A-S-H's Wayne Rogers. The circle is tightly knit. It was Nichols who directed Falk in Prisoner of Second Avenue on Broadway. Last summer Falk completed a film directed by May, Mikey and Nicky, in which he co-stars with Cassavetes. He has also helped to finance a new Cassavetes-directed film, Women Under the Influence, in which he co-stars with Cassavetes' wife...
...work, Falk is an obsessive perfectionist, "a tenacious worker capable of wanting to repeat a take 200 times to get it right," says Ben Gazzara. That tenacity led to some bitter arguments with Levinson and Link in the beginning, but when the writer team reminded Falk of those blowups recently, he protested. "Those were just getting-acquainted fights." In private, Falk is noticeably more even-tempered. "Nothing really touches his equanimity," says Lee Grant. "You could explode a bomb next to him, and he would just look at it with extreme interest." His wife describes...
...hunting for a party of stranded aquanauts. The members of the crew and anxious onlookers up top include Walter Pidgeon, Yvette Mimieux and Ernest Borgnine, variously outfitted in starchy white smocks that bespeak technical competence or clinging T shirts that display reassuring reserves of sexuality or brawn. But Ben Gazzara, captain of the Neptune, appears in blue oxford shirt and cranberry cardigan, as if he had suited up for a Sunday brunch. Gazzara further emphasizes his distance from this whole sodden scientific adventure by remaining resolutely unimpressed whenever some monster fish is loosed upon the Neptune by the special-effects...
MONDAY: Husbands. (1970) Okay, so it's a hopelessly adolescent indulgence of innocent Huck-Finnish male friendship fantasies. It is a good one. John Cassavetes directed and co-starred with Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara. CH.7 11:30 p.m. Color...