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...party is being thrown for Colin (Eli Wallach), out of sympathy. His fiancee of 14 months has just drowned. Diana (Anne Jackson) gets the group together. She feels that Colin's "friends" ought to cheer him up, even though none of them has seen him for three years. When Colin arrives, it is clear that he is past cheering. He is a human cork, with matching brain, who could bob merrily on a tidal wave of disaster. Grief is all Greek...
Assistant District Attorney Ira Wallach declined to comment on Owen's charge...
...conceivable that it's not the best method," Robert Wallach '78 said yesterday. "We may be alienating the people in the office, but persisting by letting them know we're mad and serious is worth that risk...
...long, circuitous and not very edifying trip. Winner and Co-Writer Jeffrey Konvitz go through subplots as if they were exploring the New York subway system: as soon as one begins to get them somewhere, they change to another line. One of the more promising involves Eli Wallach as a cigar-chomping cop who sees Raines' lover as a latter-day Bluebeard...
...neatest puzzle in the movie is how Wallach, within a few hackneyed lines, manages to create a character. But after he spreads some suspicions and turns up a body, the film makers take him off the case. He and his very human rationality are left far behind as the film spirals downward through blood, perversity, communion with the damned and pseudoreligious mumbo jumbo...