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...this overlong first step in the cinematic canonization of John F. Kennedy, Actor Cliff Robertson wisely jettisons any attempt at the J.F.K. speech and hair styles. It is bad enough to hear shipmates Ty Hardin and Robert Gulp talk disrespectfully to the gung-ho lieutenant, but then, they didn't realize he was going to be President. Only Kennedy knew that...
...this overlong first step in the cinematic canonization of John F. Ken nedy, Actor Cliff Robertson wisely jettisons any attempt at the J.F.K. speech and hair styles. It is bad enough to hear shipmates Ty Hardin and Robert Gulp talk disrespectfully to the gung-ho young lieutenant, but then, they didn't realize he was going to be President. Only Kennedy knew that...
...superb performances are the sole merit of the overlong and confusing Tunes of Glory, but they make the entire film worthwhile. Under the spell of Alec Guinness and John Mills, one remains unperturbed by the foolish complexities that James Kennaway has tossed together as a plot, or the familiar characterizations of all the other actors...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. This overlong but nonetheless impressive novel about young college faculty members shows off the author's remarkable ear for dead-ringer dialogue and his sharpeye characterization of unhappy people...
...Music Man is overacted, overcute, overloud and overlong. In this movie, a parade is not just a parade; it resembles the massed phalanxes that troop past the Communist bigwigs in Red Square, with zest and joy beaming from every brainwashed face. A song is not just a song; thanks to a noisy collection of 211 instruments, among them trombones, double bell euphoniums, bassoons, and glockenspiels. Music Man is a hard-sell blast aimed at the eardrums of a new breed, presumably stereophonic man. Like many a cinemusical extravaganza, Music Man operates on the principle that an audience that...