Word: yorkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by BUD YORKIN Screenplay by WALTER HILL...
There are enough moments of small pleasure in this muddled enterprise to give it a kind of ruptured vitality. Director Yorkin's movies, like Start the Revolution Without Me, are chipper but erratic even at their best. Thief vacillates between unhurried suspense and the kind of comedy that is so subdued it seems almost cursory. Yorkin's genially offhand style makes the movie look a little like a TV pilot that got out of control...
Something about TV work-the necessary speed or the emphasis on packaging-fosters inconsistency and irresolution. Yorkin and his partner Norman Lear (TIME cover, Sept. 25) take a little more than the usual care with their shows (All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude), especially in the areas of production and casting. Not surprisingly, these are the sources of most that is winning in Thief...
...your article "The Team Behind Archie Bunker & Co." [Sept. 25], you state that Yorkin and Lear are eagerly dreaming up a good chess title for a movie...
Comedy is basically a social corrective, not just a form of entertainment. It is Lear and Yorkin's preoccupation with putting society's evils into a neat package to sell to the networks that makes their shows not much better than the ordinary sitcoms...