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That was Jack Nicholson's first try for an acting job, and it was 14 years before he was needed that badly. Then, as the one articulate, genuinely comic character in Easy Rider, Nicholson became a leading participant in the upheaval that has caused Hollywood, for better or for worse, to churn out an endless series of "relevant," youth-oriented little movies. The role won him the New York Film Critics' Award, an Academy Award nomination and a leading role in Director Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge. In the meantime he is appearing in Five Easy Pieces...
...legislation since the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The bill, which would raise prices by denying consumers access to many imports, is likely to pass after only perfunctory debate, and then whiz to the Senate. There the Finance Committee already has voted to attach it as a rider to a measure raising Social Security benefits. The odds are that the Senate will pass the package in early December...
Fauss (Michael Pollard), a goofy mechanical genius, is the otherwise backward son of a suffocatin' maw and a sufferin' paw. Halsy (Robert Redford) is a full-time motorcycle rider, ego-tripper and ladysmith. But the steatopygous girls who follow him are, as he admits, "gland cases" and "hurting whores." Between race-track rack-ups and sexual hang-ups, the film is crowded with subject-but barren of object. It is impossible to hide what never existed; nonetheless Director Sidney Furie seems to be attempting an existential comedy. Local color is dabbed in by the numbers. Maw (Lucille Benson...
...film owes its very existence to the recently successful two-man picaresques: Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy and especially Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But like a child aping an elder, it mimics the gestures and misses the point. The viewer can sense behind the film the search for a proven prescription. But such scrambles are self-deceptive. The movie business is too old to live on formulas; Little Fauss and Big Halsy evokes the repellent image of an adult pulling on a pacifier...
...spirit. Goin' Down the Road is closer to the intimacies of Marty than to the paranoid swagger of Easy Rider. It is weakest when its score laments "just another victim of the rainbow." It is persuasive and forceful when it studies the social pathology of urban outpatients, men who chivy and moon, boasting of the rural splendors that they once fled, dreaming of the Big Strike, and buying color television sets on time...