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...Irving of The Fury), a deaf teacher who wins the hero's heart. Drew wants to be a singer, Rosemarie wants to be a dancer, and they both want to be in love. There are obstacles along the path to a happy ending. Rosemarie's stern mom (Viveca Lindfors) feels that deaf people should stick to their own kind. Drew must act as keeper for both his gambling dad (Alex Rocco) and his ne'er-do-well kid brother (Barry Miller). Meanwhile, agents are not breaking down the doors to offer the young lovers performing contracts...
...musician named Eric Wood (Richard Baskin) and his flailing efforts to finish a record album. Wood's music bears all the other characters along. Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), who wrote some of the tunes that Wood records, is an itinerant composer called back to L.A. by his agent (Viveca Lindfors) at the request of his businessman father (Denver Pyle), who has not seen his son in three years. Carroll puts up in a rented house supplied by a real estate woman (Sally Kellerman), who also sends along a young maid (Sissy Spacek) with a disposition for topless housecleaning...
...raping me," she cries during his listless love-making), the film plummets. Playing host to a series of grotesques, Joe loses an ill-played game of hostility to some erstwhile girl friends. The battle of the exes ranges from shallow youth (Sally Kirkland) to callow middle age (Viveca Lindfors), and includes, in the interim: a toothsome baby sitter; a campaign worker for Eugene McCarthy (is nothing sacred?); a scholarly type who mumbles "I read your paper . . . It's very impressive" as she's being undressed; and a transvestite, presumably added to assure the widest possible audience appeal. Finally...
...become! To find myself!" The stars complement the dialogue. The shrink should be dosed with adrenaline; Torn plays him as if he were shot with Novocain. Sally Kirkland, the Susan B. Anthony of the new nudity, mercilessly displays a Vogueish figure that looks more erotic dressed than undressed. Viveca Lindfors, like her fellow supporting players, adopts the familiar rock musicians' motto: Loud is Good...
MOTHER COURAGE, Bertolt Brecht's treatise portraying common man as war's much-buffeted victim, will be modernized for its presentation in the bucolic setting of Castleton College, Castleton, Vt. (July 15-26). George Tabori directs a cast that includes Wife Viveca Lindfors as Mother, Sam Schacht, Rudy Bond, Julie Garfield and Pat Suzuki as the whore, Yvette...