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PAPER CHASE(1973)

Today's movie. Dated. God, did we really dress and wear our hair like that? Yes, I have pictures to prove it. I bailed out after an hour. Dull except for Houseman's performance. Houseman, who had an extremely varied career and was a professor, won an AA for this--Best Supporting Actor.

There are some other people of note. We have James Naughton as one of the students. He most recently was the director of the Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward OUR TOWN. We saw him in the musical CITY OF ANGELS! He shows little promise here, actually; but it could be the role he plays. Another student is Edward Herman who is your stock patrician in a lot of films (FDR). And Lindsay Wagner, who I last saw in a mattress commercial in the early morning at the gym; something that has a separate hardness setting for two sides. And so on.

The presumed star, if Houseman was supporting, is Timothy Bottoms. He has had a busy career almost entirely in B pics and TV. Most notably, he perfected a sneer and smirk to portray George Bush in a teevee series called THATS MY BUSH. I shudder to think. It did not last very long. His photo at IMDb is in this role; pretty good resemblance. For the first time, I am aware of bush' sleepy eyes. Look at the woman playing Laura!

I do seem to go on more about films I do not like than the ones that I do. There are more links here. It is the trivia quotient I think. A distraction for the unengaged film watcher. I will give it a 2 on the Netflix5.