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...jour Julia Ormond and nearly matches Harrison Ford for easy radiance. In his first major film role, Kinnear seems comfy-cozy on the big screen, humanizing a character--Ford's playboy brother--who could easily be a thin, tennis-anyone anachronism. "He has a lot of charm," says Sydney Pollack, who first sought Tom Cruise for the role. "You like him immediately." No wonder: the play of emotions in Kinnear's eyes is subtle, suggestive; he makes contact enough to break a girlish heart. Sabrina may be sinking at the box office, but it could launch a dreamboat...
...wonder: Did Sydney Pollack feel a different kind of whoosh--something like the sound of wind being removed from sails--when he first beheld Sense and Sensibility? Pollack is its executive producer, without whose enthusiasm, it is said, the movie might never have been made. He is one of the few contemporary American directors blessed with a genuinely romantic spirit (Out of Africa) and no small gift for comedy (Tootsie). He is also, by quirk of fate, Lee's chief competitor in the romantic-comedy market niche this season, as the producer-director of Sabrina...
...Rayfiel have too often substituted topical one-liners (some of them quite funny) for well-joined badinage. This has a distancing effect. Even worse, someone made a disastrous decision to lengthen the early sequence in which Sabrina finds herself in Paris. Wilder got through her maturation at montage speed; Pollack lingers over it for 20 inconsequential minutes, a bring-down from which the movie never quite recovers...
...goes. Pollack and his team have cast good actors (John Wood, Nancy Marchand) in the supporting roles but have, at best, provided turns for them to do rather than parts for them to play. They have hired expensive locations, which are supposed to impart authenticity to the film but which begin to look like overconsidered stage sets. We remain outside the fourth wall looking in but are never drawn in; bemused perhaps, even agreeably complaisant, but never entirely amused...
Kemp's lecture, entitled "America on the Eve of the 21st Century," was part of the Gustav Pollack Lecture series. The series is designed to "be given from time to time by a qualified person" to stimulate interest in government