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Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Diane Keaton plunges into a new area in her line of work--a leading role in a serious drama about a nympho working girl--and she can look back on the departure with satisfaction. Her masochistic Theresa Dunn rivals Keaton's technical excellence in portraying Annie Hall, but the character makes no claims upon our sympathy, despite all the vilification unloaded upon her by Dunn's succession of one-night lovers. Tuesday Weld provides an unmemorable contrast to Keaton as Dunn's capricious older sister Katherine, relying too heavily on the character's caricaturish wackiness...
Looking For Mr. Goodbar. At the Sack Cinema...
...effort that went into Goodbar was exhausting. "We all got so sick of me, day after day," Keaton remembers. A residue of Theresa stayed with Keaton after each day's shooting. "The parts where I had to be bitchy were hard to dismiss. I would go home feeling really rotten...
...which involves finding a way to key her concentration so that she feels completely alone. If she has kept herself fit with the exercises, she finds she can program and hold an emotion through the endless technical annoyances of film making. Most of the time this worked in Goodbar, but not always. Once, Brooks remembers, he wanted a look of pleasurable anticipation to cross her face as she came out of a bathroom and approached a man who lay in bed. Keaton tried it a couple of times, but came up empty. She could not find the emotion by herself...
After a movie is shot, it takes a long ime for the dice to stop rolling. A lot rests on the gamble of Goodbar. Keaton's career, Brooks' bank account and, to a certain degree, the immediate future of serious films about women. Meanwhile, Keaton is back in Manhattan, renewing acquaintances with her cats and her analyst, thinking lazily about changing apartments, studying a new Woody Allen script. The film has no title yet, but rehearsals begin next week. Allen himself will direct the picture, but not act in it. He reports with much satisfaction that the film is very...