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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really a success. Especially in the first half, several scenes take too long to get to the point, which often turns out to be not very sharp. There are also gag sequences that could easily have been richer and more firmly developed. But Tom Berenger and William Katt are persuasive as the younger look-alikes of Newman and Redford (the latter's mannerisms are even gently parodied by Katt). When the pair finally get down to robbing banks and trains, their learner's clumsiness strikes an endearing note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spinning Yarn | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

First Love tells the story of Elgin Smith, a handsome young college student played by William Katt, and his traumatic first encounter with that profound, earth-shattering emotion referred to as you-know-what...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Love, Tears, and a Loss of Innocence | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

Toward the latter stages of First Love, Katt and Dey reveal that they have facial expressions in their repertoire other than the gaping, cow-like look of innocence that pervaded until then. Both actors begin to exhibit a fair amount of talent. Katt in particular allows his character to excogitate about the changes Elgin is undergoing with enough sang-froid to indicate that the soccer hero is gaining some perspective on life...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Love, Tears, and a Loss of Innocence | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show that was nominated for an Emmy. But now Joan Darling has switched to the no woman's land of feature film. Her movie is First Love, the story of a young man (played by William Katt, last seen in Carrie) who loses his girl (Susan Dey) to an older man. "I want all the people who see this picture to remember what it was like to fall in love for the first time," says Darling, 41. Star Katt will always remember what it was like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1977 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...rebellion against the domineering rule of her mother--in which case her supernatural powers serve her well--and the subsequent blossoming of the film's heroine. The stimulus behind the transformation appears in the form of an invitation to the senior prom from the Big Man on Campus (William Katt), a touching gesture of compassion that is suggested to him by his steady. To Carrie, the prom represents more than a good time or a night to be remembered fondly; it is an act of liberation, a time when she learns to dance, to make herself beautiful, to sample...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: I Was a Teenage Telekinetic | 12/15/1976 | See Source »

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