Word: lindsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick satiric intelligence as Harry, the paper's erstwhile investigative ace, who knows it would be as phony to decry his lost innocence as to try to preserve it. Harry's girl friend, the staff photographer who is torn between career and romance, is well played by Lindsay Crouse. Stephen Collins is suitably slick as the ambitious book writer, and Jill Eikenberry makes a winsome receptionist-cum-presiding spirit. Some of the secondary roles blur into caricature in the writing but are still brought off with zest?notably by Jeff Goldblum as the freeloading rock critic...
...congressman and the priest are cut from the same cloth, a take-off on Watergate that uses a religious framework should have great potential. But Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film Nasty Habits relies too much on an ornamental frame--the format of transplanting the Watergate scenario to a Philadelphia convent--and leaves only a blank canvas for content...
...least Lindsay-Hogg can avoid doing penance for his selection of the cast; it's an all-star line-up. Jackson perfects a controlled deadpan; she achieves the Nixon scowl without the jowl. As a John Dean-like scapegoat, Sandy Dennis physically resembles a cross between the bespectacled Dean and a chipmunk in desperate need of orthodontic work. Mentally, she comes closer to a rodent in a behaviorist experiment as she blindly obeys Jackson's commands. Dennis impersonates Dean's monotone well, but her lines lack the variety to make her part interesting rather than grating...
...aura of political and technological complexity about this film, it still appears that Lindsay-Hogg and Enders used a butcher's knife to chop Spark's novel to pieces. Maybe Nixon should have gotten his hands on this film and erased is most tedious segments. Even if he only managed to cut out eight-and-a-half minutes, he would have saved a few souls from some of the unimpressed boredom that is this year's filmgoer's hell...
Directed by MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG...