Word: heartbreakingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Symphony in rehearsal and performance, as well as her 1930 Berlin debut. Brico is on-camera almost the entire time; in response to Collins's questions, she talks with direct simplicity about her music, her friendship with Albert Schweitzer, her colleagues, and (one senses for the first time) the heartbreak that is a conductor's lot when deprived of an orchestra...
Today: Cinderella Liberty, 2, 5:45, 9:45 and The Heartbreak...
...romantical sketch about a sailor who falls in love in Seattle. Both the movie and its star, professional heartthrob James Caan, have all the depth and charm of a puddle. The only reason for going to see such a harmless piece of pudding is that its co-feature, The Heartbreak Kid, is passably good entertainment. This Elaine May-directed ditty takes a funny but not-too-tender look at a poor schmuck who falls in love, after a fashion, with a shallow American beauty, played to perfection by the evershallow Cybill Shepard. My dentist in Long Island says this movie...
Cinderella Liberty, a run-of-the-mill item about sailors in Seattle, comes to the Harvard Sq. on Wednesday. With it is The Heartbreak Kid, a film directed by Elaine May with the comic touch of something like The Graduate. It's about the young, sheltered and Jewish boy being carried away. If you can handle Cybill Shepard...
...quite so wrong as Cybill Shepherd. Bogdanovich installed her in the lead as if she were some sort of electrical appliance being plugged into an outlet. Shepherd has a home-fried hauteur good enough for the one-dimensional roles she played in The Last Picture Show and The Heartbreak Kid. She knows how to strike poses for the camera (she used to be a fashion model, after all), but she has no resources as an actress. She runs short of breath in the middle of lines, and gives no appearance of understanding the words she blurts out in little hiccups...