Word: holbrook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people's interest in drugs (Mommy takes lots of pills, Daddy is a booze hound), but they all smack of smug rationalization. In the midst of all these dismal goings on are several fine actors yelling to get out. Wallach is brutal and forceful as the father; Hal Holbrook, playing a next-door neighbor, is remarkably moving against overwhelming odds; and the young actors-Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Don Scardino-are a talented crew. The best of The People Next Door is the brilliant, low-key camera work of Gordon Willis, whose fine eye for color and composition enlivened...
...worst thing about the film was Hal Holbrook. As Maxie's high school principal he speaks for the director, and he speaks a series of banal platitudes that only the Needham P. T. A. could find palatable. Lines like "Some of these kids just want to turn the world upside down, others just want to retreat from it." He looks so sincere and self-righteous, as if he were God himself speaking from the rostrum of the high school auditorium. Later, when he finds out his son is dealing, he pats him on the cheek, and then climbs down...
Investors were despondent over the slide. The fear of a major business slump pervaded Wall Street like a chill fog. The mood conjured up the grim humor of The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Market, a 19th century painting by William Holbrook Beard that hangs in the gallery of the New-York Historical Society. In hushed boardrooms, glum customers and brokers no longer spoke about Viet Nam. The topic was the recession and how long it would be before the Administration realized how serious it could become. President Nixon's press-conference avowal last week...