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...oddly reverential hush about it. This seems to arise less from a regard for the Hitchcock tradition than from a quiet appreciation of its own classiness. As a murdered man's psychiatrist, drawn into the investigation of his patient's death and also toward his suspiciously nervous mistress, Scheider is sober, stalwart and workmanlike, but one longs for the goofy exasperation Cary Grant used to bring to roles like this, not to mention his wary misogyny. Yet Scheider can play a loony tune or two (see All That Jazz) if anyone bothers to ask him. Streep fares better...
AUGUST 9, 1984: An aging group of classmates assembled in Washington today as hundreds of former White House employees helped Richard M. Nixon mark the tenth anniversary of his resignation from the Presidency. Beneath a ceiling draped with dark, carbon streamers, Mistress of Ceremonies Rose Mary Woods began the evening by passing out complimentary copies of her recent bestseller. The Rose Mary Woods Guide to 200 Honorable American...
Stiff" and shy in crowds, she could be slyly witty in private. When her husband was contemplating the propriety of their having dinner in a Rome restaurant that was once the villa of Mussolini's mistress Carla Petacci, Mrs. Truman settled the matter: "Well, after all, she won't be there." Bess endured thousands of teas, receptions and galas. Mobbed by delegates and newsmen at the 1944 Democratic Convention that nominated Truman for Vice President, she lamented, "Are we going to have to go through this all the rest of our lives?" Eight and a half years later...
WITH THE GROUNDWORK thus laid out. Herzog sends Kinski and his crew up the river. They chug in a rickety steamship chiristened the Molly-Aida--a name which contains the symbolic kernel of film. The yoking of Molly (Claudia Cordinate), a brothel madame, and Fitzearruldo's mistress, and Verdi's opera is a neon sign for the Juxtapostio of Prostitution and Art. It's Imperialism and the Musc, strolling in hand up into the old Heart of Darkness. Unfortuantely, this potentialty interesting irony is crushed by the film's mass. P>Early in journey upstream. Herzog achieves one scene...
Erika Fox Zabusky as the mistress Kitty is unrivaled in the cast in the power of her lovely, expressive voice, and she fills her manipulative, flirtatious character with admirable energy. As the son Jimmy, the character with the sharpest punchlines, it is hard to imagine anyone doing a better job with the alternately simpering and sympathetic role than the talented David McIntosh (even though he assumed the part just a week before opening-night...