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WHEN PERSONAL BEST first opened, its advertisements featured a sweaty and determined Mariel Hemingway crouching in racing position. Above the photograph, bold letters proclaimed something like. A movie about crossing boundaries exceeding limitations and giving everything you've got." A few weeks later a different ad appeared. This one showed Hemingway reaching across an empty space to a smiling Patrice Donnelly under the suggestive legend. "With a competitor...how close can you get?" Maybe the film's distributors though lesbianism would sell better than athletics. Form the second ad's rapid disappearance we can inter that it didn...
Women in love may be line for the pages of Playboy and Interview (both of which feature lengthy profiles of Hemingway this month), but apparently the average redblooded American still squirms at the thought of "that kind of thing." Even the film's eminently sensitive director. Robert Towne, finally succumbs to provincial homophobia--it won't be giving away much to say that at the end of Personal Best. Hemingway "reforms" and takes for a lover a handsome blond male swim champion. Girl meets girl. Girl gets girl. Girl loses girl. Boy gets girl. Audience breathes big sigh of relief...
...writer must write what he has to say, not speak it," said Ernest Hemingway. But times change and so do writers. If The Old Man and the Sea were published today, Papa would probably play the old man-and perhaps the fish too. And if he did not, no doubt Norman Mailer would volunteer for the role, and perhaps such other aspiring actor-writers as George Plimpton, James Leo Herlihy or Jerzy Kosinski would audition. Nowadays it is almost as fashionable for writers to act as it is for actors to write. In recent months, filmgoers have seen Mailer...
...terribly nice wife (Kate Jackson) to take up with a not-quite-so-nice novelist (Harry Hamlin) before he finds a more stable male mate. Also doing well is Personal Best, which purposely makes no big deal about the fact that its two leading figures (played by Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly) indulge in a lesbian affair while pursuing their careers as Olympic-level track athletes...
...autobiography, Will There Really Be a Morning? In vain she tried to persuade Bob Rafelson or Bob Fosse to direct it. (Rafelson would hire Lange for The Postman; Fosse is now preparing a film based on the tragic life of a modern starlet, Dorothy Straiten, with Mariel Hemingway in the lead.) In the interim came Shadowland, William Arnold's incorrigibly readable Farmer biography. The Frances screenwriters claim their script is based on original research, so Arnold has sued and awaits a showdown at the film's completion. But Lange's and Farmer's time...