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Then you start thinking of comparisons: Robert De Niro blowing the star-spangled mailbox to smithereens in Mean Streets; Al Pacino in uniform at his sister's wedding in The Godfather, telling Diane Keaton how his father enforced a contract, his voice full of casual, measured menace; Dustin Hoffman end-running out of the church in The Graduate. At moments like those, you expect the film to freeze and to see a title appear: "The legend starts here." Travolta's walk said that...
File Carr's appraisal for the moment under "glamour" and consider all that De Niro-Pacino-Hoffman talk going around as so much well-intentioned rooting interest. The movie star Travolta most clearly calls to mind is Montgomery Clift. Travolta may lack the depth of Cliffs gifts, but he has much the same quicksilver charm. He too can give an audience the sense of immediate but always fragile intimacy, of shared secrets, of private truths known without speaking...
DIED. John Cazale, 42, an actor who went straight to the private heart of his every characterization; of cancer; in Manhattan. Cazale found his widest success as Fredo, the slow, shy, forever startled, finally traitorous older brother in Francis Coppola's Godfather films. Other parts-notably as Al Pacino's out-of-tune partner in Dog Day Afternoon-confirmed Cazale's gift for searching out the darkest shadows in a role, then rendering them with shades of wit and unswerving compassion...
High school was Brearley, a fashionable Manhattan girls' school, and college was Sarah Lawrence. With the security of a $200-a-month trust fund, Clayburgh then apprenticed at Boston's Charles Playhouse. Another young actor, Al Pacino, was also learning the craft in Boston, and the two of them set up housekeeping, an arrangement that lasted for five increasingly difficult years...
...says, "was just ridiculous. One has to go to Minnesota, the other to Detroit. Your problems are different, and neither has patience to listen to the other. Thank God we broke up! We were all wrong for each other. I didn't even know who I was." Pacino's quick success was also a problem, and Clayburgh remembers with some bitterness that reporters would sometimes interview her just...