Movies

March, 1977

Director Peter Bogdanovich sent out his valentines early, neatly wrapped up with love and kisses in Nickelodeon, a fond tribute to the pioneer days of American cinema. The objects of his affection are a raffish bunch led by Burt Reynolds, Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, the perennially underrated Stella Stevens and movie newcomer Jane Hitchcock, who make their way to L.A. via Chicago back in 1913. They do pratfalls, crank out primitive two-reelers, steal scripts from The Saturday Evening Post and general...