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...Ralph Nicholson, a senior assistant postmaster general, argues that the old U.S. Post Office performed many different roles essential to the developing nation. It was a builder of roads, an employer of last resort. It charged low rates to second-class users to stimulate an infant free press and the flow of ideas throughout the country. Those days are over, Nicholson says, and adds: "Maybe we look like the heavies in this second-class matter, and I guess...
...criminal (Randy Quaid) is as petty as his crime, a puffy adolescent kleptomaniac who needs to be fetched up, not sent up, as his two reluctant guards (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young) soon realize. Feeling too sorry for him to maintain strict discipline for five days, they start loosening him up with a monumental beer bust in Washington. Next they get him into a nice, maturing brawl with some Marines in a men's room at Penn Station, and finally buy him his sexual initiation in a Boston brothel. By the time they deliver him to the brig...
...American directors treated lower-depths material in the '30s. Quaid plays dumb with canny appeal. Young, as a black for whom a noncom's career is a big step up, makes you feel his sense of risk when he stops going by the book on this detail. Nicholson's bluster only partly masks his insecurity as he moves through the excess of options presented by the civilian world. It is attention to authentic detail by all of them that gives The Last Detail its modest but genuine distinction. Richard Schickel
...fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy Jr., in a blazer, escorted his aunt Lee Radziwill, in black and gold striped lame, to a ringside seat after exchanging gentle warmup jabs with the fighter...
Carnal Knowledge. 1971 directed by Mike Nichols, starring Arthur Garfunkel with a paunch, Candice Bergen in the role of Smith graduated suburban housewife that she was made for, Jack Nicholson throwing maybe his best tantrum ever, Ann-Margaret living-in big-breasted. Filmed with a cold slickness that spells out the soullessness of middle-class sex. Abbey 9:30, Plaza...