Coming: ‘Party Animals’
I was up late the last two nights reading an advance copy of Variety senior editor Robert Hofler’s juicy biography of film and stage producer Allan Carr — “Party Animals” — which is set for publication...
View Article1971 flashback: when kiddie movies didn’t rule the summer
When, thanks to Netflix, I watched the bitter relationship comedy “Carnal Knowledge” a while ago, I was struck by how relevant the Mike Nichols-Jules Feiffer film still is more than 40 years after its...
View Article‘Thief’: lost Alain Delon/Ann-Margret film noir
The bleak 1965 MGM production “Once a Thief” was plucked out of obscurity by Warner Archive and it is just the sort of interesting oddity the label seems designed to distribute. The movie was directed...
View Article‘I, Tonya’: contempt for the characters
It’s tough to put over a movie in which nearly all of the characters are hateful, but it is possible when the people behind the camera know exactly what they’re doing. “Carnal Knowledge” springs to...
View Article‘Fabulous Allan Carr’: Hollywood flame-out
Working from Robert Hofler’s 2009 biography “Party Animals,” director Jeffrey Schwartz has put together a very entertaining documentary about the Hollywood and Broadway manager and producer Allan Carr....
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