Word: kook
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Paula Prentiss as Bobbi does her familiar kook turn. Renee Taylor plays Jeanette with the same unsparing vulgarity she used for a similar character in Made for Each Other. Sally Kellerman comes off best of the women, partly because she is the first one we meet. Her Elaine is throaty, sexy, challenging and intimidating. By the time the other two put in their appearances, the whole thing has become for audiences what it is for Barney: an endurance contest...
...room is shown, quite accurately, to be a zone where all experience-even pain-becomes banal; a rural retreat is made a place far more sinister than an evening street in the city. Shirley MacLaine, in a couple of tasteful nude scenes, puts aside her perennial mask of lovable kook to show herself as a woman of very attractive middle age. Like a good many former celebrities these days, she remains a star in search of a firmament...
...campaign got dirty. Tunney accused Brown-falsely-of advocating violence. He said that Brown was too liberal, some kind of kook who had no business eying one of those plush, prestigious hundred seats majestically fanned out under the Capitol dome. And Brown got mad too. He lashed out at Tunney, saying that he was "acting like a poor little rich boy." And then this enigma, this seemingly phlegmatic, hard man who barely gave a damn, melted and publicly apologized. "I shouldn't have said it," moaned Brown...
...heroine of The Sterile Cuckoo is a happy little dumpling of a college freshman called Pookie, a name that holds promises of maudlin disaster. The movie fulfills them. Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is what used to be called, back in the dim and distant fifties, a kook. She does swell things like move in with her straight-arrow boy friend (Wendell Burton) while he is studying for his finals, puts tape across her mouth-'cause she's promised not to talk to him-and communicates with him by holding up signs. College is some bucolic wonderland where...
PETULIA. Set in San Francisco, Richard Lester's film covers the contemporary scene and dissects the way men and women treat each other through the cruel, comic story of the relationship, or lack of it, between a kook (Julie Christie) and a surgeon (George C. Scott) who care that they couldn't care less...