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...quick before it fizzed, and the music hasn't changed much over the six albums in the last five years. Buffett's chartbusting last year was the result mainly of promotional considerations and the pull of a big-name producer, Norbert Putnam, who used to ride herd on Kris Kristofferson. Changes In Latitudes sured wasn't a new style--the best song on the album, "In The Shelter," was written six years...
...also one of the best at being good. She was fine as the prostitute in ABC's Hustling; her presence made bearable even a bore like Silver Streak; and as the rich Texas tomboy she more than held her own with Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson in Semi-Tough. But in An Unmarried Woman she has found the role all those disasters may have prepared her for. As Erica, the wronged wife, she is vulnerable and tough, innocent and cynical, cool and sexy. Erica comes alive in a way film characters rarely do. "You know she's right...
...foot eight, 275-pound Doug Atkinson, the prototype for Jenkins' defensive end T.J. Lambert, doesn't see this movie. Ritchie's biggest mistake might have been firing Ring Lardner Jr. as the scenarist. Lardner's credits include M.A.S.H. and he probably genetically knows more about pro athletes than Ritchie. Kristofferson is woefully in need of direction; his lines are often on the order of "Sounds good, B.J.," delivered in his nasal "Me and Bobby McGee" tones. Kristofferson played college football at Pomona in California, too often without his helmet, as somebody said of another famous American actor, and that must...
...gets precious little help, too, as Kristofferson sleepwalks through the movie. Which is another part of a problem--Billy Clyde and Shake no longer play for New York, but Miami. Their apartment is some set designer's idea of what a football player's dream home is like in New York, however, and it even has a pinball machine. No shotguns, but a lot of what look like Magritte prints on the walls. Kristofferson is not a worldly-wise country boy but a tuned-out meditation freak. There might be a few people down there somewhere who meditate--Tom Landry...
...remake The Philadelphia Story with Too Tall Jones; given the frenetic wedding scene at the end that sounds plausible, and it might not have been a bad idea if he could have brought it off. Correspondingly, Reynolds looks to have borrowed at least a little from Cary Grant; when Kristofferson and Clayburgh shut the door, Reynolds acts dejected, kicks at air, throws himself down on a couch, and puts on a record. As Gene Autry comes on singing, "Back in the saddle again..." he pirouettes madly across the room to turn it off--that scene alone may be worth...