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...since she, the slick singer, superstar, and immediate singing success is such a questionable choice for the leading role. In several recent interviews, she said that for a year she read about Holiday and listened only to her recordings. The product supports Ross, who offers a sensitive interpretation of Holliday which shows that she went beyond a superficial investigation of Lady Day's personality. For instance, Holliday was well know for being languid, but Ross plays her as a normally vivacious woman whose lethargy is a byproduct of an addiction to heroin. Unfortunately, while her acting should draw no complaints...
Sidney Furie's directing compensates somewhat for this casting problem, especially when he uses black and white photographic montage: The images tone down Ross's star quality and, without the glitter, she makes a much more realistic Holliday. They serve another purpose by presenting the valleys of the singer's career in an effective, but not banal manner. Her rigorous prison sentence is portrayed by a few still photographs accompanied by a voice-over of Ross singing "Lady Sings the Blues." No acting could have been as moving...
...Gary needed them. A year ago, three out of every four of the 798 students in Banneker elementary school were reading below the national average for their grade. The pupils were all black and mostly from poor families. "We are at rock bottom," admitted Alfonso D. Holliday II, a black physician who headed the city's school board. At Holliday's prodding, the board turned over the entire school for three years to Behavioral Research Laboratories, a firm based in Menlo Park, Calif...
...swingers. Doc, Frank Perry's new film from a screen play by Columnist Pete Ham ill, is sup posed to pierce "the western myth's special heart of darkness."It covers all the familiar territory, right down to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But this time Holliday is not a tubercular dentist from the East turned gunslinger, he is an itinerant murderer whose morals are only slightly stronger than his lungs. Kate Elder is a morose, scurvy hooker...
...general air of charade is underscored by the sets, which were rendered in shades of brown and photographed with washes of white light so that the film looks like an under done French fry. The pace is so slow that the real Doc Holliday could have dealt a hand of poker during each halt in dialogue. But Stacy Keach manages to suggest some depth in the Holliday character, and Harris Yullin, as Earp, slithers through his scenes like a genuine sidewinder. Playing Kate Elder, Faye Dunaway is better than she has been since Bonnie and Clyde, raunchy and touchingly haunted...