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Moore has finished Romantic Comedy, based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play, which will be released in October, and he is now working on Unfaithfully Yours, a remake of the Preston Sturges comedy, in which he portrays a famous conductor, convinced that his beautiful young wife (Nastassia Kinski) is having an affair behind his back. Five years ago, Moore was a well-known British comic who had a small American public; today he is one of Hollywood's top box-office draws, cuddling to his own bosom a salary of $2½ million for his latest picture...
...gross-out guts and gore, two or three scares-and it makes no sense whatsoever. Anyone grownup enough to gain legal admission to the movie (it is rated R) will probably find himself either reduced to guffaws or wishing he had stayed home looking at his poster of Nastassia Kinski wearing a snake...
...glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before the groundlings can become unruly in their worship, and Nastassia Kinski, one of the film's stars, wanly beautiful in a white coat, was duly whisked. On the most elementary level, Coppola's risk of $24,000 for a Sunday New York Times ad and something more than $20,000 to hire the Music Hall had paid...
...memory. And so, to the cadences of Tom Waits' bluesy songs 'performed by Waits and Crystal Gayle), these restless lovers find spirits to incarnate their once-in-a-nighttime, winnertake-all hopes. For Frannie, it is Ray (Raul Julia), a latino crooner. For Hank, it is Leila (Nastassia Kinski), a circus acrobat. Hank's dream girl is far enough above reality to convince him that the atmosphere is too rarefied, and he returns to earth to search again for someone he can live with as well as love - Frannie...
...epic Napoleon into the Music Hall, and played host to not just a celebrity party but an exhilarating film experience. After the Napoleon coup, movie wags were wondering which charismatic dictator Coppola would bring to New York in early 1982. Now they know. Frederic Forrest may be romancing Nastassia Kinski onscreen, but center stage will again be occupied by the One and Only. Lay-deez and Gentlemen . . . Francis Ford Patton Bonaparte Coppola! -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Martha Smilgis/San Francisco