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• Wuchakon TMDB · Mar 20263/10

  **_“I’m just trying to stay alive… and stay human”_** This marked the reteaming of director Stuart Rosenber and Paul Newman after their success with “Cool Hand Luke” 2½ years earlier. Robert Stone wrote the script based on his 1967 book “A Hall of Mirrors,” which fleshes out several characters involved with the top issues of the era: rightwing-ism, civil rights, women’s liberation and the counterculture. Newman stars as a disillusioned alcoholic who gets a job in The Big Easy working as a disc jockey at Conservative radio station, while Joanne Woodward plays his new gal pal, who honestly tries to get a job but often settles for prostitution. Anthony Perkins is on hand as their bleeding-heart neighbor who works as a welfare surveyor. The quality cast also includes Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle, Cloris Leachman, Don Gordon and Moses Gunn. It’s a Southern Gothic with moralizing in the tradition of Tennessee Williams’ “The Fugitive Kind” and Woodward’s “Rachel, Rachel” meshed with a bit o’ “The Manchurian Candidate.” The problem is that Stone made the dialogues too allusive. All of the characters speak in one way or another of the issues noted above, but never directly. It becomes tediou

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