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Puzzle of a Downfall Child is the one about the agonies of a high-fashion model. Played as unregenerate soap opera-like Doctors' Wives, for example (see following story)-it might have been diverting enough. But Director Jerry Schatzberg, Scenarist Adrien Joyce and Star Faye Dunaway are resolutely serious about every single moment, and the result is embarrassment. Miss Dunaway plays (quite badly) a manic fashion mannequin named Lou Andreas Sand, whose beauty and psyche crumble under the assorted and predictable pressures of the Big Time in New York. Even her language becomes stylized and stilted...
...best friend is his mother." In pre-Freudian times, that sentiment was a shibboleth; it even served as the title of a straight-faced song. But as the principle of a 1971 film? Surely Scenarist-Director Jules Dassin jests. Or does...
Paramount had paid 75 Gs for the script. Segal kicked back ten of them to the movie company. For promotion. Paramount kicked in ten more. It paid off. The scenarist scrambled 100,000 miles across country. Selling, pushing. Merchandising. He appeared on Cavett, Carson. "I'm kind of a folk hero at Yale," he liked to say. "The closest thing to a Beatle." Fraternities called him up en masse; Middle America wrote in; most important, publishing houses and film companies used Love Story as a new shibboleth. The escape hatch had been opened. Erich...
...Doors, which is having its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Another tentative meaning might be that life is a mystery on a scale that reduces the solution of a murder to the pettiest of puzzles. Since Marguerite Duras is a French novelist and a scenarist (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), still another specifically Gallic meaning to be drawn from her play is that the heart has its reasons that reason knows...
Anthony Quinn, as usual, yells and mugs a lot. Gary Lockwood's hair is always neatly combed, and Ann-Margret has nice thighs. The script was written by Erich Segal, whose previous credits (The Games and the bestselling novel Love Story) make him the perfect scenarist for Stanley Kramer, one of Hollywood's most fatuous film makers...