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...Henry's son but as Jane's brother. At 20, he was admittedly "paranoic"; at 24, he escaped the Army when his draft board found him too unstable for military service. His vanilla screen-acting style was best expressed in such films as Tammy and the Doctor. Offscreen, Fonda began a new vocation-as an alcoholic who ended at least one motorcycle ride in a Hollywood hospital. When he was discharged, he gave up vodka and took up marijuana. "That changed my whole mind," recalls Fonda. "My conscience began to show. I was no longer competitive. I grew...
...Popi, Arkin speaks with an accent that smacks aptly of the Caribbean, but many of his gestures are strictly Baltic. His perception of the role is something else entirely. A slight and soft-spoken man offscreen, he manages to give himself bulk and ferocity as a man driven up the walls of el barrio by the conflict of pride and circumstance. As a comedian, he clambers over the film to reach the top rank of American performers. Barking like a watchdog to frighten off apartment thieves, or purifying English curses into harmless Spanish, Arkin transforms slapstick into exuberant social comment...
Hello World. "I still don't think that Anthony Newley is a household name," Newley complains offscreen. "It's a bit of a bummer, as they...
...avail. Predictably, the hunters learn that they cannot survive without their quarries. Without speaking a word of each other's language, the odd couple eventually construct a raft and go off in search of rescuers. Stranded again on a different island, they find no one, and wander offscreen...
...chunky lesbian, knocking back the booze. The worn insight is typical of the maundering dialogue in The Killing of Sister George, an autopsy of a homosexual affair. The heroine (Beryl Reid) is an actress with a single role: Sister George, a kindly, cuddly nurse on a British soap opera. Offscreen, she drops the smarmy smile and becomes an abrading machine running on alcohol and programmed for self-destruction...