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Spacek not only ages and sings convincingly, but she gives her character a spine of strong emotion, of pure innocence and instinctive cracker-barrel wit. Inside the shy and often childish teen-age girl there is always a glimmer of the powerhouse woman she would become. The craggy-faced Jones makes the most of a role that fully capitalizes on both his redneck swagger and salty charm. The supporting cast is also first-rate. Rock Drummer Levon Helm (formerly of the Band) brings flinty dignity to the role of Loretta's laconic but loving father, and Beverly...
...MANDRAKE, a classical play of sexual intrigue, accompanies Perversity. Walter Hughes, Billy Ruane, Robert Rothery and Gerry Hail render Niccolo Machiavelli's 16th century script with unassuming simplicity and wit...
When Alice Roosevelt Longworth died last week at 96, Washington remembered her as a woman of great charm and elegance. It remembered her glittering marriage to House Speaker Nicholas Longworth and her years as the capital's reigning grande dame. But most of all it remembered the malicious wit that prompted her to keep in her upstairs sitting room a pillow embroidered with the message, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here...
...Mabel, wit' all 'is money an 'is big fancy cars an 'is wimmen cryin' about 'ow depressed 'e is. Gawd in 'eaven, am I supposed to feel sorry for 'im?" As always, Peter Sellers' power of observation and his ability to recount what he sees with satirical wit had saved him. But for one fleeting moment he had turned the mirror inward toward himself instead of outward toward a world of strangers. And suddenly he was himself as human and vulnerable, as comically real, as he makes them seem...
...ride is occasionally brilliant. Cast perfectly as Edmund, Brain McCue makes a consummate villian, treacherous and slimy. He plots with devilish wit, alternately the angry young bastard and the charming rogue, whose schemes overwhelm him. McCue is hilarious when he sulks in the front seat of the Lincoln or when he fakes a wound by splattering ketchup...