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It is a troubled, divided soul that French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers, Murmur of the Heart) uncovers in Alamo Bay. The script is based on a conflict that exploded in the late '70s on the Texas Gulf Coast. In the film town of Port Alamo, "Anglo" shrimp fishermen battle...
In Malle, who brought sympathetic candor to Pretty Baby and Atlantic City, his earlier portraits of American dreamers lost in transit, Arlen has a director almost too alive to nuance. The film has a very long fuse; for its first hour it meanders down familiar folkloric byways. It will stop...
Shooting around Rockport, Texas, Malle must have realized that he too was an alien intruder--a rich Frenchman with a glamorous wife (Candice Bergen) pleading the case for a Vietnamese underdog. But this foreigner was the right person to tell this abrasive story, and to capture it in warm colors...
This is a book about growing up, and at some point after she turned 30, Candice began to settle down, study acting, stop dating Secretaries of State, and make her peace with her father. Her account of Bergen's decline and death is touching, and the reader feels a...
In the 18th century it was considered chic to spend an evening at the local lunatic asylum, laughing at the inmates. In the 20th century you can be asked to leave a dinner party for making a joke about the mentally disturbed or deficient. Perhaps the kindest thing to be...