WUSA

Total misfire for me. Big letdown despite the heavy cast. I was expecting biting commentary on conservative talk radio but it took forever until Newman got going, and even then it was tepid. This falls into the '60s drifter-lost-souls-type flicks where it's oh-so-deep for the time but nowadays just seems out of touch or self-important. I'll rewatch if there's a good commentary. Fav scene: AMERICA rally at the end with the white power balloons. Where was this criticism for the rest of the film?

An early portrait of the prototype for Fox News. Pauline Kael: "Woodward has a scar on her face, Newman drinks because he can't face himself, [and] Tony Perkins is quietly going mad... After Newman's girl has hanged herself, he visits her grave--in a potter's field, no less--and [addresses her]: "I'm a survivor and I'm leaving these flats for the mile-high city. When I get up there, baby--when I look down--I'll have a few regrets." The rhetoric suggests a mixture of WINTERSET and THE OSCAR."