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...Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 7:15 and 9-30, weekend showings...
...over wrought movies, would be a matter for applause. In a film that is so predictable, however, a little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant, without reverberation...
Dreyfuss started acting at the age of eleven, playing Theodore Herzl at the West Side Jewish Center in Los Angeles. He became a recognizable movie personality in American Graffiti and a major film actor in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. While the filming of Jaws wound on, Dreyfuss would cry in mock frustration, "What am I doing out in the middle of the goddam ocean when I could be back in civilization, making personal appearances...
Dreyfuss amused himself by dating up any available women who happened to sail by. Duddy Kravitz had just opened to excellent reviews, and apparently everyone on the island had seen American Graffiti. Dreyfuss stood ready to enjoy all the perks of movie stardom, and would seize an assistant director's megaphone to pitch woo across the water. "You know why I get so many dates?" he told the envious Spielberg. "Because I have a 40-ft. face...
...profound as a movie of the Marx Brothers let loose in a beauty parlor. We encounter characters as self-centered as the businessman in Paper Tiger, who sets his clothing warehouse on fire to receive insurance benefits, characters as scheming as the young entrepreneur in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, who ignores the human suffering produced by his financial dealing. But whereas in those portrayals the characters become aware of the consequences of their actions, in Shampoo we encounter people like Lenny, who is concerned only with giving Jackie enough presents to guarantee her love, or Felicia, who drags George...