Word: newman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "The People Next Door." Lloyd Bridges, Kim Hunter, Fritz Weaver and Phyllis Newman star in J. P. Miller's drama about two middle-class families tormented by their children's rebellion...
...PAUL NEWMAN has approached his first directing assignment with an attitude sensibly balanced between ambition and restraint. His subject matter, highly conducive both to boredom and pretension, is the plight of a 36-year-old virgin (at least the ads say she's 36), played by Joanne Woodward. He works in a straight stream-of-consciousness style, using quick flashbacks intended to depict in reasonable measure the drift of his main character's mind. Sometimes these are a little irritating, but rarely more than that, and sometimes they're downright effective. Newman's use of camera is, in contrast...
...fine as well as suitably anoymous in character. Jerome Moross has written a score that would be more noteworthy if the themes and orchestration weren't so similar to The Big Country, for which he also wrote music. Stewart Stern's screenplay is consonant in its intelligence with Newman's direction...
...that for Newman Rachel, Rachel represents a kind of exorcism of the plots and parts thrust on him in ten years as a successful movie actor. He has gone further than merely not casting himself in his first try at directing; he has cast no one remotely like himself--no slick stars--and given his actors no slick dialogue. With a little more humor and a lighter touch all around, Newman could become a really good direcor, though maybe not to the point of contributing more to a picture as director than actor. So it might in any case...
...McCarthy campaign: "I thought I could make some contribution, but it is very disappointing to have the business-as-usual people tak ing over." McCarthy's celebrity corner is largely in despair. Actor Walter Matthau calls the Humphrey-Nixon face-off "a choice between strychnine and arsenic." Paul Newman, one of McCarthy's busiest advocates at the convention, promises "a month of serious drinking" before he decides whether to support Humphrey actively, though he has already decided at least to cast his ballot for him. Only Steve Allen among McCarthy's Hollywood supporters has thus far lent...