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Most of his material comes from his own backwoods boyhood spent on a 2,500-acre cotton plantation in the Arkansas Delta country. There, as a youth, he listened in on back-porch yarn spinning, submitted to hell-fire-and-damnation sermons, saw ghosts at the foot of his four-poster and, like many another adolescent, doubted his own provenance ("Was I adopted? Had I been stolen from the gypsies?"). Unlike most children, though, he drew constantly. "At first it was only cowboys, then it was baseball and football players. Finally," he recalls, "I drew a cowgirl." Not long after...
...fact, time proved them right, but Director Andrew McLaglen (son of Victor) uses the bare bones of history mostly to flavor his yarn. Even human mating instincts operate almost exclusively in relation to the bull. One eager beefer corners Maureen behind a candlelit table for two, panting, "Run out on me now, and your bull will wind up on that table tomorrow night...
...anything, unshakable performances keep The Group going strong. As the bride Kay, who ultimately pays with her life for choosing the wrong husband, Broadway's Joanna Pettet etches a jittery, wounding image of pride slowly strangled. As Libby, the frigid literary snob, Jessica Walter unreels bits of the yarn through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen...
...PUSSYCAT are more kitten (Diana Sands) and mouse (Alan Alda) in Bill Manhoff's amusing yarn about the eternal circular pursuit of male and female...
...PUSSYCAT are more kitten (Diana Sands) and mouse (Alan Alda) in Bill Manhoffs amusing yarn about the eternal circular pursuit of male and female...