Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. "It's a refuge for the kids where adults take them seriously," says "Wig," as his students call him. Many are so excited by the magazine that they even work on weekends, interviewing their neighbors on such subjects as quilting, moonshining and faith healing. Says June Graduate Karen Cox: "I would have dropped out of school if it hadn't been for Wig and Foxfire. He made me want to learn...
...that it doesn't try. Scenes are lifted from the book, hung on the Hollywood sets, trimmed in language, and left to dry. Example: Benjamin and the Monkey (Karen Black), Portony's Gentile juicer brought to life, lie in bed after sex, and Benjamin virtually lists Portnoy's scatological memories. But nothing happens visually in the scene, except for Benjamin's lips moving in a glib monologue...
...GRANTS Mrs. Portnoy is definitely TV, with sprayed hair, straight nose, facile mannerisms. Karen Black as the Monkey manages to convey sexual elasticity but is pretty hommed in by the rest of the film, as is Jack Somack who as the father has a great constipated look...
Neither was the Monkey (Karen Black), the fulfillment of Portnoy's teen-age sex fantasies. But as the West Virginia coal miner's daughter who lusts after Portnoy's intellect with as much guiltridden fervor as Portnoy has for her body, Black offers the film's best performance. Her face has those interesting imperfections usually found in the faces of nameless actresses who play in such smokers a Hillbilly Heaven. She also seems to have a real feeling for hostile profanity, which is about as extreme her as one will find in a general-release movie...
GEORGE McGOVERN-Jack Albertson, Ed Ames, Polly Bergen, Karen Black, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Tony Curtis, Cass Elliot, Tony Franciosa, Ben Gazzara, Elliott Gould, Tammy Grimes, Gene Hackman, Julie Harris, Goldie Hawn, Dustin Hoffman, Marsha Hunt, James Earl Jones, Quincy Jones, Elia Kazan, Sally Kellerman, Gene Kelly, Eartha Kitt, Burt Lancaster, Tom Lehrer, Alan Jay Lerner, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Maiden, Shelly Manne, Fredric March, Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Vera Miles, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Tom Poston, Janice Rule, Barbara Rush, Robert Ryan, Eva Marie Saint, Artie Shaw, Tom Smothers, Sonny & Cher, Rod Steiger, Mario Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Robert Vaughn...