Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance

Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance

Star Actors in the Hollywood Renaissance Representing Rough Rebels Daniel Smith-Rowsey Sacramento State University, California, USA

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To my wonderful, patient wife, Irena, and our beloved sons, Darwin and Rainier

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments viii ix 1 How to Represent a Rough Rebel 1 2 Dustin Hoffman: The Artistic Star 33 3 Jack Nicholson: The Realistic Romantic 74 4 Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote 113 5 Conclusion 153 Notes 163 Bibliography 172 Index 184 vii

List of Illustrations 2.1 Joe Buck (Jon Voight) and Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman) cross the street 36 2.2 Rizzo (Hoffman) reprimanding 40 2.3 Hoffman in elaborate makeup as 121-year-old Jack Crabb 46 2.4 Hoffman transitions from the Little Big Man to the young Jack Crabb, with a Captain (Jack Bannon) 48 2.5 David (Hoffman) manipulates Amy (Susan George) 62 2.6 David (Hoffman) smiles the smile of the man with the royal flush 64 3.1 Wyatt (Peter Fonda), Billy (Dennis Hopper), and Hanson s (Nicholson s) liberating effect on them 79 3.2 Hanson (Nicholson) at the campfire 81 3.3 Bobby Dupea (Nicholson) on oil-rig fields 90 3.4 The no substitutions scene, with the waitress (Lorna Thayer), Bobby (Nicholson), Rayette DiPesto (Karen Black), Terry Grouse (Toni Basil), and Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes) 93 3.5 Jonathan (Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) in college 102 3.6 Sandy (Garfunkel) and Jonathan (Nicholson), gads about town 105 4.1 Ted (Gould) in bed with Alice (Dyan Cannon) 116 4.2 Ted (Gould) climbs into bed with Carol (Natalie Wood), Bob (Robert Culp), and Alice (Cannon) 118 4.3 Trapper John (Gould) sporting the luxuriant Zapata mustache 130 4.4 Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) and Trapper (Gould) something about a relationship between men 132 4.5 David (Gould) clings to Karin (Bibi Andersson) 144 4.6 Karin (Andersson) in focus while David (Gould) is out of focus and out of touch 145 viii

Acknowledgments I would like to thank my doctoral supervisors, Roberta Pearson and Gianluca Sergi, for their seemingly inexhaustible patience and flexibility when it came to my topic, my writing, and my personal needs. None of this would be possible without the generosity and support of Sharon Monteith, Ann McQueen, and the entire department at the University of Nottingham, including the amazing assistance from the faculty, staff, and my fellow student colleagues. I also want to thank Peter Krämer for help with early drafts. Any errors are my own. ix