----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Mason" <
Todd.Mason@tvguide.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001
3:56 PM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Speaking of Newman movies...and
Ross Macdonald...
> Finally saw HARPER the other day. Very
disappointing...particularly when
> many folk over the years have noted how good it is.
Newman seems
remarkably
> full of himself. Wm. Goldman's script has little
chance, RM's book less
so,
> up against Newman's pseudocomic mugging, the
too-frenetic editing, Johnny
> Mandel's eventually annoying music. The best
younger-Robert Wagner
> performance I've seen doesn't help much, since it
still isn't good except
in
> brief passages...oh, well. I've heard both THE
DROWNING POOL and Peter
> Graves as Archer in THE UNDERGROUND MAN are that
much worse. TM
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