Word: schickel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basically agree with Critic Richard Schickel's review of Neil Simon's movie Only When I Laugh [Oct. 5]. I too found myself "strained" by the bombardment of simplistic one-liners and disappointed by the film's lack of substance. However, I thought Mr. Schickel's attack on Neil Simon and Marsha Mason downright vicious. Marsha Mason does possess the very "natural charm" that Mr. Schickel says she lacks. In a masterly way, she portrays a vulnerability and human fallibility with which so many of us can identify...
...Richard Schickel...
...Schickel's review of Mommie Dearest [Sept. 21] stands as tragic testimony to one of the most serious obstacles to recognizing the extent of child abuse in our country, namely, that it's really no big deal for parents to haul off at their children now and then...
...daughter. The conviction of its stars, however carries one past this dreary consistency just as it does the movie's more troublesome inconsistencies. The trick to enjoying the film is not to take anything about it seriously, except the talents of Bisset and Bergen. -By Richard Schickel...
...Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee and The Marquise of O . . ., Rohmer has long since established himself as one of film's most assured miniaturists. This latest meditation on romantic absurdity is one of his most approachable and overtly comic works. -By Richard Schickel...