Word: heros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this merrily repressive time was not going to last for long, and there were some hints, even in those days, that things were going to change. The questioning, anti-social youth hero who became so prevalent in the '60s was an outgrowth of the discontent that the structured '50s produced, especially among the younger people in the country. Rock and Roll emerged; for the first time black music and white music tentatively merged, a synthesis that gained tremendous popularity. The movies too, began to show some shift in outlook among the kids growing up in America. The confused, "unrespectable" heros...
...revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square theater is not exactly on the rocks, but it is certainly becalmed. One obvious flaw is the casting. Shaw's hero, Jack Tanner (George Grizzard), who doubles as Don Juan, is meant to be a clever and intense young idealist, full of revolutionary ardor. He is in the grip of what Shaw calls a "master passion," and his iconoclastic views are contrasted with those of a fossilized former liberal, Roebuck Ramsden (Richard Woods). Grizzard works hard. But he is visibly too old for the part and lacks the psychic energy...
...officer screams, promising him an easy job if he does so. "God is God," the man prays. "God alone is God." "God" is on the man's lips as he dies. "I was there," testifies the martyr's son. "You see, my father . . . my father was a hero ... But he was not a believer." There are other more pitiful tales: the family that can hide only one child safely, and must choose which one. Or a girl in a schoolroom, asking if there is no excuse, no mitigating evidence, for the Jewish Kapos in the camps: "Is there...
...there is a hero in the new film, it is Donald Sutherland, who gives an energetic, intelligent, emotionally rangy performance as the public health officer working on the case. There is nothing wrong, either, with Brooke Adams as his colleague and lover. But, sadly, they can not compensate for all the other mistakes in a film that lingers too long and too soberly over material that, as the original showed, must be quickly, even superficially handled, if it is to be accepted...
...loser in the ensuing chaos is Tomlin. As written by Wagner, the film's heroine is defined more by brand names (Gucci, Mercedes, Perrier) than emotions or intellect. There are only silly plot devices to motivate her on-again, off-again affair with the street-kid hero, Strip. Tom lin has so little to work with that she falls back on fey comic mannerisms and, finally, phony swoons and sighs. It is the first time that this usually empathetic actress has stood completely outside the character she is playing. Instead of creating a latter-day version of Anne Bancroft...