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...some reason she has given the film an on-screen chorus whose androgynous members offer polemical asides about the hero's behavior; these cretins raise the film's misanthropic tone to a screech...
Once again the Eastwood and Reynolds stories begin to coincide. They handle the problem of being a star in different styles. But their public has perceived them to be, on-screen and off, what they really are?self-made men. Far more than the studio-controlled screen heroes whose tradition they have inherited, they are in control of their destinies. That can only reinforce the power of their screen images. As Eastwood says, "I've been lucky enough to shape my own career. With a lot of help, of course. I guess I'm pretty self-sufficient, and I think...
...Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar. As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Ressner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars. Watching her is a shock for viewers who associate her shy and awkward manner with Annie Hall. She is on-screen for well over two hours while her character disintegrates in the direction of alienation and death...
...Sept. 12, 9 p.m. E.D.T. on CBS). One of the major inspirations of the Mary Tyler Moore Show was to cast sweet, motherly Betty White against type-as a two-faced bitch. In this promising new sitcom from MTM Enterprises, White is as bitchy as ever and on-screen almost all the time. It might be too much of a good thing...
...Arledge has been practicing in public. The results have been lively but confusing. One night ABC gave Son of Sam, the New York lovers'-lane killer, lengthy and sensational treatment. On another night Barbara Walters, ABC's million-dollar anchorwoman, appeared for only a minute or two on-screen at the beginning and end. Next night, in a different hairdo, she was dispatched, like any local girl reporter, to stand before a bombed-out glass front to talk about Puerto Rican terrorists-a story on which ABC breathlessly lavished twice as much tune as the other networks. Such...