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Lenny Bruce in Concert, 4, 7, 10 p.m.: Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin in the Bronx, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20, through Saturday; And Now For Something Completely Different, 4, 7:25, 10:55, Bedazzied, 5:35, 9:05. Sunday through Tuesday...
...starlets who fit the mood of the return to romance. There is, for example, Margot Kidder, a Love Story hater ("Two marshmallow people marching around trying to be brave") and one of the great bodies of the Western world as well as the Tomato Surprise of Quackser Fortune. Or Carrie Snodgress, unforced, radiant star of the arch, dim Diary of a Mad Housewife. Perhaps the most technically skilled of the new romanticists, she insists...
...been besieged with scripts and has sifted through them with his own brand of mad logic. What sort of actor would turn down a tempting offer from Mike Nichols to play in Catch-22, but accept the lead role as a Dublin manure spreader in a film improbably titled Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in The Bronx? To everyone's good fortune (especially his own), Wilder did just that. Says he: "Quackser was the idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where I'm at now-humorous, sexual, innocent and striving...
...Quackser is an urban savage who prefers shoveling horse manure from the streets of Dublin and spreading it on ladies' flowers to working in the foundry with his father. Without Wilder's protean talents, the film could have been absurd: an upper-middle-class American girl studying at Trinity College (Margot Kidder) nearly runs Quackser over in an MG but winds up taking him to her farewell dance and ultimately to bed. Wilder makes the affair believable by investing his role with an appealing integrity as well as sexual overtones; he himself added two scenes early...
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