Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roth's story. The film's observations of the nouveau riche Patimkins are subtle enough-until a parody of a Jewish wedding that looks as if Beelzebub had personally catered the affair. Too many of the camera's juxtapositions are vulgar or obvious or both: the hollow of a navel introduces a swimming pool, an embracing couple becomes a side of roast beef, the jock is shown carefully laundering his athletic supporter...
...Peerce seems to have trouble distinguishing between comedy and caricature. But the two directors also share an asset: the debut of a promising ingénue. Wellesley-educated Ali MacGraw is one of the few models who have successfully managed to switch from magazines to movies without being a hollow-cheeked embarrassment-but at a price. At 30, she has made a late start in the business. Her subdued, ivy-league beauty has, however, retained its freshness. And her performance, which swings with intricate calibration from poignance to petulance, happily compensates for a lot of lost time...
Inevitably a virgin is seduced (twice in fact it's so funny) and a teetotalling bar-smasher gets roaring drunk, but this particular show extends its faithfulness to formula a bit too far. Individual lines like "you boys couldn't flatten out a wrinkled postage stamp" ring a little hollow. I wondered during the first act whether the show would stoop to the Beach Party level of repartee with one character emphatically commenting "You can say that again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same...
...Making. The Broadway book had the grace to mock itself. In the end Charity was blessed by a good fairy -who turned out to be a costumed pitch woman plugging a CBS-TV show. Peter Stone's hollow adaptation takes itself seriously. Charity, maundering through Central Park, converses with a bunch of flower children who teach her the power of Love...
...Peck, who is in private life an avid collector of Lincoln memorabilia. With flashes of ironic humor and his customary rigid dignity, he escapes the boundaries of the role and gives it an honest, Abe-like stature. The rest of the cast is resolutely unglamorous; even Saint has the hollow eyes and concave face of a woman who has been out on the plains too long...