Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This mixture puzzled Trilling, because she sensed something special in the first Radcliffe men. They seemed a sensitive group; men who preferred milk and cookies to the happy hour scene. They respected Radcliffe brains but "were by and large men who felt inadequate with competition, who felt women would be more tender...
...SCENE between Clayburgh and Barry is ludicrous; Mom pats junior's corduroys around the crotch area twice and bam, the earth moves. With a sensitivity level like that, how the hell does the kid ride the subway at rush hour? The other "big" scene has mom writhing about fully clothed, displaying to full advantage a mere pair of skinny legs. No sexual tension or even desire ever builds up between the two. The two moments of sexual activity occur for no apparent reason; Bertolucci never integrates this incest into the broader context of film. The only truly startling moment...
Potter suffers nobly the swingers and narrow-minded women of the outrageous singles scene for several weeks, but his bachelor life is not to be. He sprints to call Marilyn, assuring her that he wants only companionship, not sex. They date. Potter reacts shyly to his first post-marital kiss but returns the next night to find Marilyn setting a candlelight dinner for herself. "It looks like something you read in a book about how to be single," he kids, then whispers, "I want to have sex with you." They mate...
Predictably, Jessica reappears, dressed to seduce the Ayatollah. On the brink of luring Potter into her motel-room sack, she sings again--a cockroach doing Donna Summer. But bitchy glamour appeals to Potter; he wants to try life with Jessica again. In a bizarre scene meant to symbolize his anxiety about leaving Marilyn, Potter hyperventilates on a Bloomingdale's couch. This sequence seems to perplex Reynolds most of all. He looks lost portraying a character who has no control of his emotions...
...like giant Weeble rebounding to its feet, Potter returns to Marilyn's doorstep. A scene in Boston Garden heralds the end of this opera: he proposes to Marilyn. Another unmarried man breaks ranks...