Word: polanski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers, Friday and Saturday...
Chinatown. I reserve judgment on this controversial picture until I see it again under competent circumstances. But Polanski seemed cold and showy in this movie, and to cut off possibilities for making points by creating character so self-interested and manipulative that they never even hint at what they really feel...
Public Broadcasting starting its day with an old absurdist film from Roman Polanski's student days? No, just the game-show people beginning theirs with Truth or Consequences, the first of no fewer than 25 half-hours of vapid-fire questions and gaudy prizes. On through the day come a succession of dazzle-dentured, sharp-suited emcees, attempting to smother their contempt for their work and their contestants under a line of chatter as false as a roofing salesman's guarantees...
Nicholson can employ his rough, warming charm to get himself through a bumpy scene or an insufficient part, but he is usually a careful and thorough craftsman. "He simply doesn't care about the way he looks," says Director Roman Polanski. "I put a bandage on his nose during half of Chinatown, and he didn't object. With Jack, it's only the result that counts." Indeed, for Fortune he gets a weekly permanent to keep his hair Art Garfunkel-style kinky...
Like many suddenly rich people, Jack's attitude toward money swivels wildly. Anjelica just got a Mercedes for her 23rd birthday. According to Mike Nichols, Nicholson always has "several thousand bucks out" to help friends over some rough spots. But Roman Polanski says that at other times Nicholson is "stingier than W.C. Fields." Once at Maxim's, Nicholson fought for and won the $600 check. When he found that one of his dinner companions could have taken care of the bill as a business expense, he was miserable...