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...downfall of the film. Her co-star, Burt Reynolds, is just as bad--he whispers rather than sings and his dancing is so inept that Bogdanovich has cropped his body at the knee most of the time. The rest of the cast--Bogdanovich standbys like Madeline Kahn and Mildred Natwick--do better, and Eileen Brennan is even good. It's a pity she didn't get top billing...
...pros will also be aided by some volunteers: a pair of busybody spinsters called The Snoop Sisters (Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick) and The Magician (Bill Bixby), an all-American vaudevillian version of the nonviolent Kung-Fu, who conquers evil with birds and bunnies from his hatful of tricks...
...Stage Manager, Henry Fonda establishes the play's underlying innocence with his copyrighted brand of casual intensity. Ed Begley and Mildred Natwick as Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs and John Randolph and Irene Tedrow as Editor and Mrs. Webb never falter in their roles as small-town New England caricatures circa 1910. Likewise, Elizabeth Hartman and Harvey Evans encounter little difficulty getting their portrayals of Emily and George from the soda fountain to the play's touching cemetery scene. Unfortunately, Miss Hartman bears the burden of having to ask: "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live...
...Miriam, a ghost tale in the manner of Henry James, a loquacious Nanny (Mildred Natwick) is persecuted by a dead-eyed little girl (Susan Dunfee). Capote, who wrote the story at the age of 17, may be excused for an inability to distinguish between the gothic and the baroque. The Perrys, who clutter the episode with hollow scenes, flat performances and melodramatic terror-music, cannot be so easily...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Author Neil Simon has taken a plot as bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits-and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick are as crisp as the script...