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...deft and softspoken, and an actor's director as well. Arkin comes closer than ever before to breaking through the reserve that sometimes straitjackets his unquestionable comic technique. Judy Graubart is winning as his realistic girlfriend. The guys at the lab- Austin Pendleton, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright and Jayant-manage to satirize every imaginable form of intellectual hubris. Their cause is a worthy one, and so is their director's debut...
...Clear Day You Can See General Motors, Wright...
...spanning 210 ft. at the top. At the start of the show, roadies-rechristened "wallies" for the occasion-start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed. During the second half, a few strategic ruptures appear through which Waters and his fellow Pinkies-Keyboard Player Rick Wright, Drummer Nick Mason and Guitarist Dave Gilmour-can be glimpsed doing their stuff...
...tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher who fakes blindness (Harry Dean Stanton), a zookeeper (Daniel Shor) in search of an animalistic deity, an evangelical merchandising expert (Ned Beatty) and some sex-starved belles (Amy Wright, Mary Nell Santacroce). Huston has great affection for these people, even if Hazel does not: the misfits are celebrated not only for their lunacies but for their comic inability to square their passions with normal spiritual or temporal ambitions. About Hazel, however, Wise Blood is dead serious...
...Brethren, Woodward & Armstrong (1) 2. Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck (2) 3. White House Years, Kissinger (3) 4. On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors, Wright (6) 5. The Right Stuff, Wolfe (8) 6. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady (9) 7. Serpentine, Thompson (5) 8. James Herriot's Yorkshire, Herriot (4) 9. Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient, Cousins 10. The Windsor Story, Bryan & Murphy