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...play opens with the vulgar Party official Skripkin accompanying his mother-in-law shopping for his upcoming wedding. The first act centers on Skripkin's break with his fellow workers to marry into the petty bourgeoisie. The act is, without exception, unintelligible. The fact that the actors must play different parts in each scene, with no apparent logical transition, just adds to the confusion...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Full of Sound and Fury | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

...Director Michael Ritchie, a satirist who has previously assaulted such institutions as competitive sports (Downhill Racer), beauty pageants (Smile), political campaigns (The Candidate) and est (Semi-Tough). For his new film, An Almost Perfect Affair, Ritchie went to the 1978 festival to record the goings-on in all their vulgar glory. He eavesdrops on the manic deal making that transpires daily on the Carlton Hotel terrace, the pretentious black-tie screenings, the endless parade of female pulchritude for commercial purposes. Such real-life luminaries as Rona Barrett, Edy Williams and Brooke Shields pop up here and there, in most cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cannes Game | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

There are also hilarious cameos by David Dukes, as a vulgar film director, and by Broderick Crawford, as himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pros at Play | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...taught at Princeton, and in 1968 was named McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He has written six books on law and politics, one of which figures as an inside joke in The Vicar of Christ: the Associate Justice narrating the second part cites a title from a certain "vulgar political scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Justice of The Peace | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...university professor is frustrated by a tragic marriage to the bourgeois Natasha (Grace Shohet). Redford skillfully makes the transition from idealistic brother to alienated bitter council member. He epitomizes Andrey's awkwardness in his shuffling, hesitant walk and bursts of speech. And Shohet is deliciously annoying as the pushy, vulgar Natasha, who does nothing but drool--loudly--about her children...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Scott A. Rosenberg, S | Title: Unearthing Chekhov's Rhythms | 3/22/1979 | See Source »

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