Cooper can be uneven, I think. He's so drop-dead magnificently beautiful that I can't blame folks for not trusting him somehow, and the aw-shucks demeanor can occasionally ossify.
But he's marvelous in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN. Charming, funny, very moving and sexy as all holy f*ck. And there's that amazing scene in the largely dreadful THE FOUNTAINHEAD where he first lays eyes on Patricia Neal, and it become very clear, in a series of highly heated closeups, that they're going to be laying a lot more than eyes on each other.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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