Word: neale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Company's 15th season. It is a drama of tensile strength that almost deflects attention from its flaws. The dead man is Technical Sergeant Vernon C. Waters (Adolph Caesar), a regular Army, "all Army" noncom who fought in World War I. The time is 1944; the place Fort Neal, La. Apart from its white officers, this is a black outfit consigned to menial and, sometimes, degrading tasks...
...Patricia Neal Story (CBS). Prime time offered enough triumph-over-a-bizarre-disease TV movies to choke a hospital, but Dirk Bogarde and the redoubtable Glenda Jackson made this particular version wrenching and true...
...final chase scene takes place on-and off-stage during a performance of Verdi's Otello. To be fair, Bergman usually knows how cliched his situations are, and he often satirizes them in clever ways. In a typical over-melodramatic sequence, for example, handsome Bob Fine (O'Neal) meets and falls in love with the voluptuous and married Lira (Mariangela Melato). They gaze intensly at each other, finally they clasp hands. Slowly their lips meet, they kiss deeply. They separate and gaze into each other's eyes. Lira says, "I fuck around...
...SIGN ON the bus featured a stupid-looking Ryan O'Neal standing amidst a harem of bare-assed beauties. Actually they weren't exactly bare-assed; it's just that their ultra-tight blue jeans had plastic windows where the pockets should have been. "So Fine: a revealing comedy," it read. "Coming soon to a theater near you." "So bad," I thought, and continued to fight my way across Mass...
Unfortunately, the performances of the main characters do not do justice to Bergman's script. O'Neal is only somewhat convincing as the nerdy English professor, a man who talks about decor while a beautiful woman is seducing him. When he is called upon to grow in the movie, he manifests the change more in his costume than in his manner. Melato does acceptably as the lusty, Latin, sexually frustrated wife, but she fails to being much originality to this fairly conventional role. As character actors, Warden and Kiel deliver their roles in the usual manner: Warden as the gruff...