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Monday, October 17: Film: "Der Unter Tan" b/w, 105 Pendleton East...
...human actors are mildly envious. "Those puppets get acting moments that most actors never have," observes Austin Pendleton who plays the movie's softhearted villain. Director James (Kid Blue) Frawley has already suspended disbelief. Says he: "My work with Kermit the Frog is as specific as it would be with Bobby Redford...
This delightfully bizarre comedy about life death and love opens as the central character, Joe Pendleton (Beatty), a star quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, looks as though he is about to suffer a tragic death in a tunnel collision between his bicycle and a truck. A novice heavenly escort, (played by Buck Henry) removes Joe's soul from his body just before the smash-up in order to spare Joe the pain. Of course, the escort does not realize that Joe, being an excellent athlete with quick reflexes, would have avoided the crash and lived for another 50 years...
...audience and his heavenly guardians as his former self, but as Farnsworth (whom we never actually see) to ever body else. This gimmick naturally provides several humorous encounters. The best of these is the scene in which Joe tries to convince his old coach that he is really Pendleton and not Farnsworth, and to let him play in the Super Bowl...
...promise of his career as seen in his earlier, more substantial roles, in films like Splendour in the Grass, Bonnie and Clyde, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and The Parallax View appears undeveloped in his more recent roles as George, the heartily-sexed hairdresser in Shampoo and as Joe Pendleton in this film...