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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