Word: neale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such pioneers as Directors Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan. But more important to the film's relative success is the director's warm, but not sloppy feeling for the very earliest period in film history. In telling the story of a tangle-footed lawyer (Ryan O'Neal) who, in the course of fleeing an outraged client, literally falls into show business and accidentally becomes a director, the film perceives that the distinguishing characteristic of those pioneering days was an innocence derived from the fact that the stakes in the game, both financially and intellectually, were absurdly...
When Bogdanovich is concentrating on atmosphere, showing a small independent company making up stories in order to take advantage of the locations, or fighting off gunmen sent out by the competition, his picture has a pleasant authenticity. There is also a nicely handled romantic triangle involving O'Neal, Burt Reynolds as a star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film...
...happy-go-lucky flickers: It is too bad that the frantic slapstick of the film's early passages ill prepares one for the ending, vitiating its force. It is by no means a fatal flaw, there being so much about Nickelodeon-including supporting performances by Tatum O'Neal, Brian Keith and Stella Stevens-that is captivating. It is just that the film does not realize all of its potential...
...Republican John Wydler, 52, who described Lowenstein as "an ultralibeal, a constant loser and a notorious carpetbagger." Another comeback effort fell short in North Carolina, where former National League Pitcher Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 45, a Republican Congressman from 1968 to 1974, was defeated again by Democrat Stephen L. Neal, 42, an heir to the R.J. Reynolds tobacco fortune...
...others meant-as they plotted to contain the scandal. The book also probes the often heartless world of high-powered lawyers and prosecutors bargaining over the fates of clients and defendants. (When Prosecution Witness Herbert Kalmbach wept on the stand in the cover-up trial, Special Prosecutor James Neal was sympathetic but also ecstatic: "He's had it tough. But by God, he's a hell of a witness...