Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intent on a seven-year period of mourning for her brother, but she carries a black fan and even keeps her two sofas draped in black. In private she pops mints into her mouth from a pillbox. In her first meeting with Viola--Cesario she raises a smile by ticking off her virtues--lips, eyes, neck, chin--and then tucking her locket mirror into her bosom on the words "and so forth." She leaves no doubt that she is smitten by the young page since she whips the black drapes off her sofas when she exits. Later on, she goes...
LIKE HOPE AND CRABGRASS, Richard Nixon springs eternal. Ever since the Great Fall in 1974, no matter how you tried to weed the fellow out, he was always there, always flashing the nervous smile from under the properly crinkled ski-jump nose, forever sweating in the midst of an air-conditioned world. And always reminding you that he ran your life for five eminently regrettable years. Still, until recently, there was always an element of "fun" in the game--every time Dick popped out from under his California rock, you could, hoe him right back under again with...
...that only the truly paranoid feel. The visions of being driven to some out-of-the-way alley, held up and perhaps shot by this mysterious driver, flash by in an instant. You clutch your wallet, tell him no thanks, you'll wait for the bus, and watch him smile the rueful smile of an honest man. The drunks coming out of the bar snicker at your blind fear, and nod at the cabbie, who walks away shaking his head...
This week fortune is ready to smile on Beatty yet another time. Heaven Can Wait, his new film, opens at 625 theaters nationwide and is almost sure to be the most popular entertainment of the summer. A remake of a classic Hollywood comedy called Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Heaven Can Wait is a light, screwball fantasy about a Los Angeles Rams quarterback (Beatty) who dies and comes back to life as an eccentric millionaire. The movie has everything going for it: big laughs, populist politics, billowy sequences set in heaven, a murder plot, a climactic Super Bowl game...
...stuff to do Danny wonderfully. It seems criminal not to use the stud's drive and energy he displayed in Saturday Night Fever or even the nicely observed rebellious indifference he delivers in Welcome Back, Kotter. All he is asked to do here is stand around and smile sweetly, thus leaving what amounts to a large black hole at the center of the film, into which, finally, an entire made-up universe disappears...