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...first reaction is: "Feeding them what? Strychnine?" Nicholson's voice, with the silky menace of an FM disc jockey in the eighth circle of hell, has always suggested that nothing in the catalogue of experience is outrageous enough to change his inflection. Even when he goes shambly and manic (Goin' South, The Shining), Nicholson's voice and those tilde eyebrows give the impression that he knows more than his character, more than anyone need know. So it comes as a surprise that here he is playing a grubby hero, Eastwood-tough and Redford-bright. He is good...
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory play themselves. Wally a New York playwright whose plays no one will bother to produce. Andre a world-renowned dramatist and incurable manic-depressive whose obsession with death seems to be the drug that keeps him plugged into the world. Andre invites his old friend Wally to come and meet him to talk and enjoy dinner at a lavish Manhattan restaurant...
...with people...[long pause]...Men I mean") in a monotonous baby-doll voice uncannily reminscent of a T.V. commercial for an underarm deodorant called "Tickle." Both Martin and Peters approach their roles in a curiously stylized way, staring out of glazed eyes either vapidly (Peters) or with an intense manic glow (Martin). Only Jessica Harper, who plays the dull, frowsy Joan, seems to be able to travel comfortably between the make-believe world of the songs and her unhappy "real life" as Arthur's cuckolded wife. Perhaps if she had been in charge here, the movie--and even Arthur...
DUCK YOU HEAD-LOWLA BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags, supersonic mayhem, polka-dot undershorts and the occasional smack in the puss-Sylvester J. Pussycat, to be precise. There is much unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite...
Sergienko, who has been pursued by the Montreal Manic and the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League, has also been superb. "Peter has been the finest sweeper to pass through Harvard since I've been here," said Ford, who is in his seventh year as coach...