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...Buddy System is its lack of focus. The film vascillates between being a corny romance and the pitiable story of a friendless child, and never clearly decides which plot has the most appeal. Moreover, side issues like Sarandon's silent struggle to free herself from her mother (Jean Stapleton) are either given peripheral treatment or never fully developed at all. By the time the characters move towards resolving their crises, the audience has difficulty piecing together the tangential fragments of the story...
Dreyfuss and Stapleton attempt to compensate for much of the confusion created by the film's disjointed and cliche-ridden script and, to a great extent, are successful. Dreyfuss' depiction of the sex-hungry artist whose ambitions are constantly thwarted by his brainless girlfriend (Nancy Allen) make for some memorable moments. More notable is Stapleton, who potrays the archetypal needling grandmother who inevitably winds up alone. The scenes with Stapleton provide the best moments in the entire film...
...actresses who have played Amanda, from Laurette Taylor to Gertrude Lawrence to Helen Hayes, Shirley Booth, Maureen Stapleton and Katharine Hepburn, none brings more impressive credentials to the role than Jessica Tandy. In 1947, she was the first Blanche Dubois; now, at 74, she is playing Williams' first great cracked Southern belle. A generation too old for the part, she strides through the play on the assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some...
DIED. Ruth Carter Stapleton, 54, evangelist and practitioner of "inner healing," who was instrumental in the 1966 spiritual rebirth of her elder brother, former President Jimmy Carter; of pancreatic cancer; in Fayetteville, N.C. A self-described "catalyst for God," the ebullient, unordained born-again Christian minister suffered a severe depression in the late '50s after the births of her four children and a car accident. Crediting her recovery to God, she mixed prayer with psychology to heal troubled or afflicted believers. After she learned of her terminal disease five months ago, Stapleton refused conventional medical treatment, saying, "I have...
...nation's second-largest pay-television service. Showtime, with 4 million-plus subscribers, is currently airing the sixth of her fanciful tales, The Sleeping Beauty, and plans to show three more by the end of the year. So far, Duvall has enticed Joan Collins, Elliott Gould, Maureen Stapleton and Mick Jagger into such unlikely vehicles as Hansel and Gretel and Jack and the Beanstalk...