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re: Why wasn't Sandy Dennis in the movie version of "A Thousand Clowns?"

Posted by:	AlanScott 06:00 pm EDT 03/12/14
In reply to:	re: Why wasn't Sandy Dennis in the movie version of "A Thousand Clowns?" - LegitOnce 07:49 am EDT 03/12/14

I agree about Fonda. I think she's pretty OK in the Any Wednesday movie, although some other people — Barbara Harris, for an obvious example, or Goldie Hawn if it had been made eight or 10 years later — might have been better. If some of it didn't look so cheaply made, with awful rear projection in some scenes (made worse by the fact that in one shot Fonda and Jones will be on a real UES street and then in the next shot they will very obviously be in front of an awful rear projection) and some really phony-looking sets, it would be absolutely fine in its way. Rosemary Murphy kills, as she apparently also did onstage. If nothing else, it's worth watching at least once for Murphy, unless you're completely allergic to that kind of comedy. I have a friend who despises Dennis in that Three Sisters, but I agree that she's fascinatingly weird in it in ways that I think are right, or certainly at least justifiable, for that character. But you do have to accept that if you met someone who behaved that way in real life, you'd think she should be locked up somewhere or at least needed to get back on her meds. But perhaps they didn't have meds in that town. Maybe that's why she needed to get to Moscow.

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