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| Such Good Friends | |
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If Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice introduced Dyan Cannon to movie audiences as the sexually uptight housewife, Such Good Friends lets her cut loose when she accidentally discovers her dying husband's 'little black book' chronicling the gory details of a series of affairs he'd been having with several of her friends. Giving new meaning to the phrase 'over my dead body', she goes off on a sexual rampage, revenging herself with as many men possible in 90 minutes of screen time. |
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| In its review, the NY Times predicted that the film would offend a lot of people. Little did they know the biggest offence would be taken by Cannon herself. "I would never make another film rather than work with Preminger again," she exclaimed. "How can a director who has no feeling, make a movie about a feeling woman? I don't think he could direct his little nephew to the bathroom!" In response, Preminger only smiled, "Imagine how good her performance will be in her next film, if this one was so brilliant with a bad director. I didn't hire her to praise me, I hired her to give a good performance. And she did." Andrew Horn |