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...which the author has adapted deftly to his main theme. And Drury has clearly not lost his old gift for sustained narrative that salvaged some of his previous works. An accomplished literary craftsman if nothing else, he has skillfully worked this great mass of complex detail into a smooth stream of polished prose...
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM...
Islands in the Stream, based on Hemingway's posthumous 1970 novel, is more serious. It is an attempt to capture the elusive strains of tenderness and generosity that could inform Hemingway's writing when he stopped beating his breast. But except for George C. Scott in the leading role, it attempts to do this without anything approaching Hemingway's gifts, tarnished and erratic though they were toward the last. It remains an attempt-earnest and labored. After watching it, one is tempted to say: Come back, Howard Hawks...
...second act abandons the flashback except for a few isolated and effective moments, and it begins with Roosevelt on the campaign trail in 1912. The absence of random, stream-of-consciousness reminiscence as attempts to carry out present action in a one-character play seem almost inherently doomed to failure. Some "corny" lighting and musical effects only worsen the general lag in the first part...
...characters. If Leo acts like a sexual automaton (he places his hand on Celeste's leg; she asks sharply, "What is that?"), Celeste reacts coldly with banal psychology in her analysis of Leo's childhood. Employing a more experimental approach, Berger tries his hand at Joyce an stream of consciousness in the sexual encounter between Todd and Lynnette. His use of monologue also shows originality, although it's not always dramatically appropriate...