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...other games, Harvard champion Kirkland House was blown away by the Saybrook-Trumbull running attack, succumbing to the Eli champs, 21-3. Time ran out with Leverett House on the Brnaford-Edwards three yard line, as the Bunnies faltered, 14-8. Davenport-Pierson smashed fumble-ridden Winthrop, 28-0, while Stiles-Morse shut out Mather, 6-0 and Berkeley Calhoun whipped Eliot...
Directed by FRANK PIERSON...
Screenplay by JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, JOAN DIDION and FRANK PIERSON...
...careening careers furnish the closest contemporary equivalent of the Hollywood flush years. Barbra Streisand and her inamorato Jon Peters weighed into the project as Dunne and Didion drifted away. Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters, who kept hold of the creative clout...
...least Kris Kristofferson, affable and shambling, his pupils spinning like pinwheels, has a good few minutes at the beginning of the movie. So does Director Pierson, as he captures the schizy, druggy, enclosed, exploding tension of rock superstardom. After that, Kristofferson-playing the Norman Maine surrogate, John Norman Howard-is required to freak for Esther and explain his love by comparing the experience to fishing for marlin. It is the rendering of the romance that lays the movie low for good. John Norman (both names, please) is suicidal apparently because, like the film makers, he can not make...