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...Waterston makes a gentle, intelligent Nick, but the role is largely passive. The movie's sharpest characterization is Bruce Bern's Tom Buchanan, a figure of imperiousness, steeped in contempt that comes from too much ease, too much money. When he and Gatsby confront Daisy in a hotel room one afternoon, the film catches the intensity that Fitzgerald conveyed in the sculpted contours of his prose...
...Tent. The remaining loose ends of the Gatsby package wrapped up smoothly: Karen Black and Scott Wilson as the ill-fated Myrtle and George Wilson; Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan; Sam Waterston as the narrator, Nick Carraway; Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker; and finally Howard da Silva, who played Wilson in the 1949 version, as Gatsby's mysterious business connection Wolfsheim, "the man who fixed the 1919 World Series...
There was more curiosity about Farrow than anyone, but after the show, least agreement on her performance. It is an uneven portrayal: "She comes, she goes, but in the end she just fades away." Most of the praise for actors is for Bruce Bern and Sam Waterston, though just about everyone agrees that Howard da Silva's brief appearance as the gambler is the best bit in the picture. There is also agreement that the picture does not grip the emotions. Said one departing guest, "What's that line in the ads, 'Gone is the romance that...
...with happy incongruity in Ted dy Roosevelt's America, this Much Ado was all gingerbread and gingham. Benedick smoked cigars, wore a boater and, as he is played by Sam Waterston, looked like a dyspeptic basset hound...
...Waterston is Benedick to the last corpuscle. He brandishes his cigar like a swagger stick. He discovers his love half knowingly, but with astonishment nonetheless, like a child finding the tooth fairy's silver dollar. Kathleen Widdoes makes Beatrice a proper combination of cold wit and hot blood. When she exclaims, "I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband...