Word: grimiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artist ahead of his reactionary times is irresistible. So Director Fosse cops out, buying and selling, without insight or irony, his protagonist's own version of his life and hard times. As he proved in Cabaret, he has a fine eye for the gritty details of the grimiest levels of show business, but here realism (the film is shot in grubby black and white) reinforces the mistaken belief that Fosse's account is the full truth about Lenny...
...Johnny Carson-Dick Cavett monologues about getting home from the studio. Everywhere Bronson turns in a trash-and graffiti-glutted environment, he sees an old man mugged, a car being burglarized-and his gun is quick. Pretty soon he is stalking the gloomiest streets, the dimmest parks, the grimiest subways, inviting attack and expertly dispatching his assailants with his peacemaker...