Word: snodgress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diary's hapless heroine is Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgress) who has a set of hang-ups that might shock Mary Worth. Jonathan, her lawyer husband (Richard Benjamin), is an Ivy League cretin who announces to their children at the breakfast table: "Your mother made Phi Beta Kappa at Smith, but I don't think she can make a four-minute egg." This sort of thing is hardly conducive to connubial bliss, so Tina tends to get turned off when Jonathan yearns for a "little old roll in de hay." She begins a passionate "sex thing" with a surly...
Every character in the script is a clumsy caricature, so there is not much the actors can do. Carrie Snodgress is good enough as the bedeviled Tina, and Frank Langella contributes many moments of force and subtlety to his boisterous role. But Richard Benjamin, one of the standouts of Catch-22, takes a giant step backward. The part is a ludricrous stereotype; Benjamin plays it-or is directed by Frank Perry to play it-like a buffoon...