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Bill Cosby and Harvey Keitel por tray two hot-shot drivers, Mother and Speed respectively. Raquel Welch also stars, and it does not require a good deal of sophistication to determine which role is hers. In the movie she does not like to be called Jugs (Jennifer is her proper name), and the sympathies of the film makers are entirely with her, even as they exploit...
Still, she is agile and relaxed, and does not seem particularly out of place either up against the affectless cool of Bill Cosby or the brush-fire intensity of Harvey Keitel, who is among the best young actors around...
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. All about a middle-aged widow and her smart-mouthed son trying to make a new life for themselves. Directed with raucous, stops-out vitality by Martin Scorsese and fiercely well acted by Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd and Harvey Keitel...
...picador yet ready to charge again. Where the lines have Willy on the verge of whining, Scott roars out a défi to a malignant fate. Never has the father in Willy come across so forcefully. His boys Biff and Happy, finely played by James Farentino and Harvey Keitel, are inextricably involved with this man. They cannot ignore him since his passionate concern for them and their future is so movingly transparent. Only Teresa Wright, as Willy's wife Linda, seems to lack the needed gravity for her role...
Moriarty is among a handful of young stars who dominate the recent spate of "masculine mystique" movies - Al Pacino (Serpico, Scarecrow), Robert De Niro (Bang the Drum, Mean Streets), Harvey Keitel (Mean Streets), Martin Sheen (Badlands). They are nei ther heroic nor antiheroic leading men but character actors. The star quality is there, but deliberately subject to the stage-oriented discipline of craftsman ship and technique. Moriarty is not really a "natural talent," observes Donald Schoenbaum, managing director of Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, where Moriarty spent four seasons in repertory. "His talent is as much intellectual...