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...next morning no one understands it very well, and it's even a little embarrassing. Mike Nichols's newest movie, a light-headed, stale farce called The Fortune, could have been born during just such a private all-nighter, at some point when Nichols, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson got so clap-happy that they filmed their ideas on the spot...
...film is a bewilderingly thrown-together comedy about two indigent idiots who try to swindle a young heiress out of her money. Nicky (Beatty), the tall poker-faced one, has seduced and eloped with the heiress while waiting for his divorce to come through. His pal Oscar (Nicholson), the short goofy one, marries her instead to make the theft legal, and they smuggle her off to California to wait for her 21st birthday. While they are busy making inept plans, the audience has time to notice what a fortune Nichols has already stolen: characterization from Laurel and Hardy, a plot...
...Nicholson has a genius for creating pungently unlikable characters, but not cartoons. He is best playing the kind of handsome, slightly cheap con-man whose tentativeness at the wrong time shows that he's secretly more than a pushover--a brazenly healthy specimen with a weak-willed, soft-hearted core, a man whose oblique playfulness (meant to hide everything) pleads desperately for help and affection but who is vacillating, mean and a bit of an ass. Here he plays a sly, greasy Dennis-the-Menace type with the manipulative whine and offended pout of a three year old. He waddles...
Bruce Dern, who in Deceit will co-star with her for the third time, says: "Karen is always alive on that screen." Jack Nicholson, her co-star in Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces and her director in Drive, He Said, maintains that "she's the most lucid actress I've ever worked with. You tell her where it's at and she grabs it." For Black, acting is like grabbing at air. She says that she plans nothing about a character and gives a role "no prior thought...
Died. Dame Barbara Hepworth, 72, British abstract sculptor; in a fire that ravaged her studio at St. Ives, Cornwall. A fellow traveler with the small band of venturesome Britons-including Sculptor Henry Moore and her second husband, Painter Ben Nicholson-who pioneered abstract art in the 1930s, Hepworth established her trademark in 1931 when she pierced a hole in a small carving to seize the viewer's eye. "I thought it was a small miracle," she later recalled. "A new vision was opened." Holes and hollows, sometimes painted to accentuate their depth, turned up in most...