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...field events, Yale's Tom Neville is rated a clear favorite over Harvard's Howard Keenan, but Joe Naughton is given a big edge in the shot put and Teddy DeMars is picked in the hammer over Yale's Deac Wallach...
What do TV Host David Susskind, Commentary Magazine Editor Norman Podhoretz, Actor Eli Wallach, Critic Alfred Kazin, Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, and a covey of New York's richest lawyers and brokers have in common? For one thing, they all spend as much as $3,000 a year to send their children to Manhattan's private Dalton School. For another, they have lately turned their intellectual ferocity to intramural school brawling...
What do you do when you find your daughter huddled in the back of her bedroom closet, taking a troublesome trip on LSD? Or shacked up in the East Village with a Hell's Angels cokehead? Well, if you believe Eli Wallach and Julie Harris in The People Next Door, you blame older brother. You get mad at little sister. You get mad at the neighbors and at each other. And all the time you yell, yell, yell. In every way, The People Next Door is an anachronism, a "naturalistic" play like those prevalent in the 1950s...
...couple of cursory attempts to explain young people's interest in drugs (Mommy takes lots of pills, Daddy is a booze hound), but they all smack of smug rationalization. In the midst of all these dismal goings on are several fine actors yelling to get out. Wallach is brutal and forceful as the father; Hal Holbrook, playing a next-door neighbor, is remarkably moving against overwhelming odds; and the young actors-Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Don Scardino-are a talented crew. The best of The People Next Door is the brilliant, low-key camera work of Gordon Willis, whose...
...with the fine cast he has assembled. Eli Walach as the father is a man with some heart who reacts very humbly to what he views as his daughter's failure. The fact that this character's view is sold as truth by the director is too bad, for Wallach is a good enough actor that he might have scored a triumph in a more balanced and honest film. Nehemiah Persoff as a kindly psyhciatrist with some sympathy for Maxie also does well. Again, it is a shame he has such a small part. He is given some good lines...