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Chaleff is a suite-mate of Don A. Nicholson '76 and Sam M. Wee '76, two students who have been involved with the Memphis, Tenn., dictionary-selling company's recruiting efforts at Harvard...
Here, as in L'Avventura and La Notte, Antonioni's unsettled protagonist becomes increasingly the victim of a malaise that has no clear source. A television journalist named Locke (Jack Nicholson) is on assignment in a remote corner of the North African desert, trying to run to ground a story on some guerrilla fighters. The barren, blasted landscapes, the unknown language and ways of the few people Locke meets, are all transformed by Antonioni into coded messages of fate...
...looks to an Antonioni movie for fine and varied performances. He tends to depersonalize actors, although Nicholson manages a certain level of bleak intensity, and Maria Schneider is winning, despite an unrealized role...
...winner of the Best Picture of the Year award is likely to double, maybe triple its gross profits in the months following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars plus percentage of the profits in his next movie. A Best Supporting Actor jack nicholson can become Jack Nicholson. A cliche maybe, but you can feel the goddamn tension. It's like you have Scoop, Mo, Hubert, Ed and Lloyd, and one of them is going to get it on television in an envelope, instead of watching the action in the privacy of a hotel suite...
...perfect vehicle. Russell is fascinated by Tchaikovsky--he made The Music Lovers about him--and a critic of the composer could level similar charges at the director--he is vulgar, sloppy, with a wild imagination that colors furiously outside the lines. Which is why an actor like Jack Nicholson (who plays the doctor)--an actor of understatement and double meaning--looks totally out of place in Tommy. And a brash swaggerer like Oliver Reed (Tommy's stepfather) is quite at home...