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...evening of the long knives. For Chaplin it came early and never seemed to lighten. After a series of affairs with leading, supporting, featured, walk-on and crowd-scene actresses, Chaplin took up with the adolescent Lita Grey. A relative of Lita's had news for her paramour: in California, dallying with a minor was statutory rape. Charlie and Lita were married in November 1924. She was his second teen-age bride. Three years later the Chaplins were divorced after loud litigation. The American public booed his on-screen image; annihilation beckoned. Chaplin tried a master tactic. "I married...
...dear!), and carrying on in various ways with a pretty governess and a pair of fresh-faced children borrowed from Henry James. Brando is Peter Quint, the ghostly valet of The Turn of the Screw turned into a gardener. The governess is Miss Jessel (Stephanie Beacham), his haunting paramour. The film's Big Idea is to make precise what James left terrifyingly ambiguous: just how Quint and Jessel died, and what they did to corrupt poor young Flora and Miles before James' story begins with the arrival of a new governess...
...self-abuse. Jerry Orbach makes the most soporific leading man since Sonny Tufts, and the grandiose incompetence of Jo Van Fleet as the foul-mouthed Big Momma would be hard to equal. However, Robert De Niro, as a kleptomaniacal bicycle racer, and Leigh Taylor-Young as his perennially startled paramour, somehow manage to bring a small degree of charm and reality to the lamentable goings...
...from A Thousand Clowns. The girl has changed from Barbara Harris to Katharine Ross, but the man remains Jason Robards. Once again he plays the crumpled buffoon, out of step with society, delivering loud, whimsical broadsides against such well-riddled targets as the Establishment, traffic and the FBI. His paramour is 25 years his junior, and her attachment for such a droning bore may be ascribed to callowness or to a classic Electra complex. But she is still the dream-child of The Graduate and the only visible excuse for an overblown farce that collapses into bloody and unmotivated tragedy...
...delivers his spiel under the heel of the station's jackboot-minded owner (Pat Hingle). By day he wallows in booze and self-pity ("I had it made and I woke up one morning, I looked down and fell off my life") in the arms of his pathetic paramour, a hooker named Geraldine (Joanne Woodward...