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...film's psychosexual turmoil is heightened still further by the director's linkage of these two milieus: gays cruise in cop costumes, and off-duty cops cruise in S-M drag. Both worlds are inhabited by such fine character actors as Paul Sorvino, Richard Cox and Don Scardino...
...Donald Scardino, who unfortunately reminded me too much of Ronnie Howard, plays Johnny, the American soldier, with just the right touch of geewhiz and charm. He is an innocent cast among the crazy, and he reacts accordingly. His voice isn't great, but he pulls off his numbers with no major trouble. Millicent Martin, as the madam, has too many songs and becomes boring after the first act. The show runs about two and a half hours--far too long, particularly in the first act--and I suspect some of Ms. Martin's numbers will feel the knife...
...scenes such as a going-away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named Don Scardino, who is the most genial and talented young leading man to appear since Beau Bridges...
...smug rationalization. In the midst of all these dismal goings on are several fine actors yelling to get out. Wallach is brutal and forceful as the father; Hal Holbrook, playing a next-door neighbor, is remarkably moving against overwhelming odds; and the young actors-Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Don Scardino-are a talented crew. The best of The People Next Door is the brilliant, low-key camera work of Gordon Willis, whose fine eye for color and composition enlivened other moribund exercises, like End of the Road and The Landlord. Perhaps Willis, instead of investing such care in this project...
...MARCIA A. SCARDINO Rochester...