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...movie version of President's Men has also been a headache. They came close to rejecting Actor Robert Redford's offer to buy movie rights to the book for fear the Hollywood version would be, well, too Hollywood. They were right. The first draft of Writer William Goldman's script was excellent in parts, but generally superficial. "It read like a Henny Youngman joke-book of one-liners," Bernstein complained to a friend. "Harry Rosenfeld [Post metropolitan editor] came out looking like Phil Silvers, and Ben Bradlee became Walter Pidgeon. It was just too shallow." So Bernstein...
...bother me, because you don't have to put up a facade." Prior to the scandal, the old images of tough muckrakers and dashing foreign correspondents had faded. Now some of the glamour is back. Says Richard Petrow, dean of New York University's program: "When Robert Redford plays the lead in a movie about two reporters, you know something is happening." What is happening is that Watergate has persuaded many students that journalism is an exciting, socially valuable occupation...
...epoch of Hollywood's great, and great looking film comediennes-a group that extended from Carole Lombard and Constance Bennett to Jean Arthur and Lucille Ball-is as extinct as the Movietone newsreel. Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, these are the happy couples who now hit it big at the box office. Audiences in search of funny girls have learned to forsake the theater for Valerie and Mary on the smaller screen. Mary opts for the soft approach. Every week, as Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic...
...Candidate [1972]. Probably the best contemporary statement on modernday politics. The film explores the moral implications of campaigns so vast and complex that they're beyond the candidate's control. Robert Redford is just a little better than adequate as the young, idealistic lawyer turned by the political process into a non-committal pol. Peter Boyle (Joe) is a very good as the mercenary professional campaign manager who knows how to get his boy elected. Redford's confused question to Boyle at the very end is a question we will all have to consider. Must seeing...
...Like Redford's "Gatsby," Bond too bombed in Newport this summer...