Review of Rich and Famous (1981) by Jay Scott for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) — 14 Jun 1996
The lead performances, by Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen as two college friends who become competing novelists in later life, have the Cukor audacity without the Cukor grace, and his visual expressiveness is in evidence only sporadically.
Yet the film stays in the mind for its dark asides on aging, loneliness, and the troubling survival of sexual needs.
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This review of Rich and Famous (1981) was written by Jay Scott and published by The Globe and Mail (Toronto) on 14 Jun 1996.
Rich and Famous has generally received mixed reviews.
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