Word: stardust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lady or the tiger? That is, which became frightened by the lights at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas where Looking to Get Out was being filmed, and who looked-successfully-for a way to get out? Well, it wasn't Ann-Margret, who stars in the movie as a prostitute with a heavy past. She remained in focus along with Co-Stars Jon Voight, Burt Young, and the magic team of Siegfried and Roy. The tiger felt better out of the glare of the klieg lights and was only reluctantly coaxed back on camera. But the temporary escape...
...later personal traumas are not so much dramatized as displayed like flash cards for predictable audience response. As the screenplay loses its energy, so does most everything else. Apted's direction takes on the facile, rushed quality of his 1975 film about the rise of a rock star, Stardust. Spacek's big scene, her onstage breakdown, is so imprecisely drawn that she has no chance to duplicate the pathos Ronee Blakley brought to a fictive version of the same incident in Nashville...