Movies
October, 1972
Alexander Portnoy, the hero of Philip Roth's wildly comic best seller Portnoy's Complaint, is a swinging attorney who describes himself to his bored analyst as "the son in a Jewish joke." Wordwise, at least, all the jokes about creamed jeans have been brought to the screen intact by writer-producer-director Ernest Lehman, who allows Richard Benjamin, as Portnoy, to talk out his masturbatory fantasies ad infinitum. Even the celebrated bit about Portnoy's violation of a piece of liver re...
