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Charles L. Gould...
...Altman movies. M*A*S*H is perhaps the funniest antiwar movie ever made, but you'll have to be on your toes if you want to catch all of the dialogue. Ditto with The Long Goodbye, where Altman sets a Raymond Chandler novel in present-day California. Elliot Gould is Phillip Marlowe, and he gives the best performance of his career. Watch him fool...
...They are like Hope and Crosby, like Laurel and Hardy. They have just the right chemistry," says Director Mark Rydell of his current stars, James Caan and Elliott Gould. On location in Mansfield, Ohio, for the filming of a comedy titled Harry and Walter Go to New York, the pair portray 1890s vaudevillians who end up in prison with an urbane safecracker, played by Michael Caine. Caan and Gould get wind of Caine's plot to break out of jail and into a bank, and before long they are racing him to the vault. To the actual habitues...
...allow their anger to stand in the way of their self-interest. Since January, they have been signing deals with U.S. companies, both well-known and obscure. Some samples: a $50 million order to Allis-Chalmers Corp. for an iron-ore pelletizing plant, a $47 million contract with Gould Inc. for a plant to produce heavy-duty engine bearings, a $21 million order for Caterpillar bulldozers and a $7 million contract with General Instrument Corp. for technical assistance and equipment for manufacturing hand-held calculators. On the consumer front, the Soviets have placed a $23 million order with Intertex International...
Altman junked almost all the conventions the cook book critics go for--except the stars: he held out and focused on two major characters, Eliot Gould and George Segal. And even though both actors turned out excellent performances, they almost spoiled the film. It was as if they'd been given too much freedom, because Gould's happy-go-lucky interpretation made Segal's tortured gambler seem cliched, as though his problems were silly. Segal undercut Gould, too, making him seem shallow. With the actors canceling each other out like that, the film became curiously objective...