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...that accompanied Lenny in the '50s: "To me the whole play is like Lenny's day in court." Adds O'Horgan: "I want to tell people something about this guy who kept trying to tell the truth. Some of the words he got busted for, Barbra Streisand says in movies now, and people just react with 'Isn't that cute?' " To judge from the previews, Lenny is a sincere testament, whatever the verdict of the New York critics. Dirty-mouth, the film, on the other hand, looks like a ripoff. Made on a budget...
...COURSE, the Steins eventually do leave; the buoyancy of their presence, made possible by Rae Allan's Streisand-like comic timing and Bill Macy's nasal, controlled delivery, contributes joy to this spectacle of lives still tawdry and depressing, but not really worth watching if it had been limited to Anna's nightmares of mother guppies consuming their young, puppies being crushed by giant trucks or, for that matter, Catherine's suppressed nymphomania. Julie Harris as the Captain's wife in Reflections in a Golden Eye, to my mind, patented the whole type of the skinny schizoid, and her mannerisms...
...year. The composers make about the same. Unlike the two vocal groups, however, they are not played out by the 3:30 p.m. quitting time, and can moonlight for another $10,000 annually. Though they all probably get more air play than Streisand, Jagger or Bacharach put together, P. & T. staffers are paid no residuals or ASCAP royalties...
Following Rider, Nicholson carefully avoided typecasting-so carefully that he played a barely noticeable role as a rich hippie with Barbra Streisand in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, a part he took "for the bread." He admits: "All I am in the movie is bad." He has since directed his first film, Drive, He Said. He regained his footing as an actor in Five Easy Pieces, in which he played a gifted pianist-turned-supergypsy oil rigger. About his role, Nicholson expounds: "I have a very strong political propagandist feeling about my work. If you can change...
...fine dramatic actor with minimal comic talents, here displays glints of honest humor. When Doris cannot fall asleep without the television going, Felix gets behind a goldfish bowl and does an uproarious series of sketches. Occasionally, the film tries to take itself seriously, which is ludicrous. But when Streisand and Segal stick to their clawing comedy, watching the fur and feathers fly is high entertainment...