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...Feldstein is incredibly businesslike," reports Beckwith. "At the end of our interview, I took a minute to review my notes. Instead of just sitting there, Feldstein got up and went to his desk to work. He has wit and humor, but frankly, it is the dry, academic kind that isn't going to keep Johnny Carson from sleeping nights...
...Cooke himself did not actually perform in the musical numbers, instead, he confined himself to armchair wit...
Aranchair Wit...
...Confidentially Yours neither works as frank satire, nor does it hold the suspense of a thriller. The bizarre jumbled reality of Vercel's world has more in common with that of a Thomas Pynchon novel than with the finely-crafted artifice of the classic film noir. Pynchon, however, has wit. Sustaining little of the illusion that is vital in, for example, Scarlet Street, Confidentially Yours makes no bones of having ketchup for blood and a pacemaker for a heart. The movie actually seems to be the director's private joke--he is having his cake, and eating it, too, both...
...imagery, his bony build and glistening skull are unpresidential. With his brains and looks, Gary Hart should be a winning candidate. But his natural reserve makes him seem cold, even condescending. Ernest Rollings looks like a President, yet his quick tongue outpaces even his nimble wit; he rambles, improvises and seems to startle himself, as well as his audiences, by what he has just said. George McGovern's sincerity, clarity and professorial calm have piqued the interest of a new generation of college students who were children when the former presidential candidate led his party against the Viet...