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...named Jack Tupper. The writer knew and had once interviewed Jacobson and his girlfriend and business partner, Melanie Cain, a fashion model. The victim had often been encountered, by Haden-Guest and others, in trendy restaurants and bars on Manhattan's East Side; he was an affable table hopper in his mid-30s with a reputation for shady connections. Just before his death, Tupper had also become known as Melanie Cain's new boyfriend. Buddy Jacobson, so the theory went at the time, had put a stop to that...
Lavishly choreographed by Danny Daniels, and at times hilarious, these forays into the protagonists' fantasy lives provide a welcome respite from the general gloom. As director Herbert Ross leads us relentlessly from one depression cliche to another--the deserted prairie highway, the Edward Hopper diner, the seedy hotel room complete with flashing neon sign outside the window and the El rumbling past--the song and dance numbers become an escape, not only for Arthur and Eileen, but for the audience as well. And there's a lot to escape in Pennies from Heaven. For Arthur and Eileen, sexual exploitation, grim...
...They painted them in pinks and greens, sheathed them in asbestos shingles, ersatz clapboard or fake stone and brick and punched outsized suburban picture windows into them. This remodeling often led to a complete transformation, to a peculiar, eclectic vernacular that lent variety to the uniformity of gray, Edward Hopper neighborhoods...
...view this as a setback. But movies were too ingrained in Nicholson's blood to be discarded after a few dozen failures; he turned to personal experience to improve his literary output. He wrote about drugs. The Trip (1967), directed by Corman and starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Bruce Dern, detailed, in an obscure way, an L.S.D. experience. Not coincidentally, wife Sandra had experienced a bad trip; understandably, she implored Jack not to work on such a screenplay; not surprisingly, he doggedly persevered, and she packed up and left with daughter Jennifer before The Trip was completed...
Easy Rider (1969) d. Dennis Hopper (Oscar nominee; best supporting actor, NY Film Critics...