Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cheered and confident after his re-election victory, New York Governor Hugh Carey jetted down to the Bahamas with his lady love, Anne Ford Uzielli. They stayed in the sumptuous house owned by her father, whom Carey likes to call "Henry the Deuce. " But Carey, 59, apparently has not yet won his campaign for Anne, 35. When they returned to New York last week, he asked reporters to stop asking about the subject. But he was more expansive when discussing politics and personalities in a series of candid interviews in both the Bahamas and New York with TIME Senior Editor...
...Anthony Hopkins) bombs before audiences until he adds ventriloquism to his act. His mannequin Fats, whom his agent (Burgess Meredith) calls "the first X-rated dummy on the block," is everything Corky is not -- bossy, crude, with a mouth that should be washed out with Pine-Sol. The crowds love him, and Corky seems headed for the top and a T.V. contract -- until, inexplicably, he balks at taking a medical exam required by the network. Panicked by his agent's reassurances that he's only scared of success, Corky flees with Fats to the Catskills, where he grew up, partly...
...Love scenes aside, Corky's exchanges with Fats provide the only riveting moments in the movie. The early dialogues inject some much needed, if admittedly ghoulish, humor into the film; the later ones are truly terrifying, as Corky literally spins out of control. The dummy looks amazingly like Hopkins, with exaggerated features that caricature the actor's perfectly. This mocking resemblance not only allows for several nice shots contrasting the two faces, but emphasizes the entire concept of Fats and Corky's alter-ego. Fats' face, like his personality, becomes a grotesque parody of Corky...
...however, something must be made clear. I first read The Lord of The Rings when I was 10 and in the intervening 10 years I have read them seven or eight times. I am one who holds the Trilogy in a special place of esteem -- you might say I love these books. Not everyone feels this way about Lord of The Rings, but those who criticize the books for being a dull, silly tale or simply nothing special have always been an enigma to me. I simply could not understand why anyone could fail to be as enchanted by Tolkien...
...first question being yes, the answer to the next must be maybe (or Barnum was right). To the last, it is no; the services asked from Rocky's composer are beyond the call of duty. Just why any young writer should be so cynical in constructing a love story the first time out is hard to fathom. Barra Grant has the dancer (played by Anne Ditchburn of the National Ballet of Canada) move in down the hall from the columnist (Paul Sorvino). There are a number of chance encounters in which she gradually warms to his streetwise...