Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken refuge in camp and stylistic cartoonery. As Oscar Jaffee, the flamboyant theatrical producer who is down on his mendacious luck, John Cullum looks and cavorts rather like a Barrymore run off by a slightly defective duplicating machine. To make a comeback, he must sign Lily Garland, the woman he catapulted to stardom, to a stage contract. In that role, Madeline Kahn displays an arsenal of talents. She is kooky, vulnerable and seductive in succession, and her voice has a near operatic authority. As a religious nut, the Imogene Coca you get is the Coca that refreshes. Cy Coleman...
...UNMARRIED WOMAN...
Paul Mazursky's best movies - Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Blume in Love and now An Unmarried Woman - are bulletins from a combat zone. The battlefield is affluent urban America; the war is the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Mazursky describes the skirmishes in all their neurotic glory, tots up the emotion al casualties and tries to identify the survivors. He does so with both compassion and dark wit, and the result has been a remarkable string of films that document the changing mores of an exasperating decade. Indeed, Mazursky's social report...
...Unmarried Woman, the director leaves his favorite turf, swinging Southern California, for the less laid-back precincts of Manhattan. He has the terrain down pat. The film unfolds in chic SoHo lofts, Upper East Side high-rises and glittery mock-deco bars. The characters are people who favor art by Paul Davis, go to sleep to the purr of the cable-TV news ticker, wear Adidas sneakers when jogging and fall in lust while shopping at Bloomingdale's. They are well-intentioned people, but they have a sad habit of wounding each other. Mazursky -whose sensibility is half John...
...greatest affection is reserved for his title character, Erica (Jill Clayburgh), a Vassar-educated 37-year-old who suddenly loses her seemingly devoted husband of 16 years (Michael Murphy) to a younger woman. For the first time, Erica is without a man, and she must learn how to adjust. Eventually she does, but not without the help of a therapist and a new lover, an artist played by Alan Bates. By the end, Erica has arrived at a state of hard-won feminist bliss...