She is a monster of commercial amorality. She is magnificent in her thin, nervous, bra-less attitude. Extraordinary! However, the most alarming character in the whole thing is Faye Dunaway's. From Golden Boy to Sunset Boulevard, Holden was a man who carried his own discomfort as a weapon. Finch is superb, superb! and Holden, at the end of a legendary career, gives a performance of such ferocious sincerity that I rediscovered the man, the actor and felt the need to revisit some of his opus. The scenes between old chums Finch and William Holden are some of the best written scenes in any American movie until the Coen brothers emerged. Peter Finch as the mad prophet of the airwaves gives Chayefsky a riveting and powerful voice. I endorse the later of the two because I believe things have changed since 1974 - I wasn't born yet, but I know because of my parents, the movies, literature, etc, etc, etc. To think that this blackest of black comedies was made in 1976 could only means two things: 1) Nothing has changed or 2) Paddy Chayefsky was seeing the future with the most disturbing clarity.
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