Stanley Kauffmann

"[Hofsiss] also pushes our faces into the face of Jill Clayburgh. One of the several reasons this is a mistake is because of her oppressive lisp: she says “f” for “s.” There’s really no special need to be so close to her when she complains bitterly, “I feel like a bar of foap.”

“…. All we are shown is the breakdown and recovery of a successful woman. Nothing we see relates to her life, her past, her realignment of herself in relation to them: it’s just the chronicle of some events that are supposed to entrance, by being shown graphically—Clayburgh drooling, for instance.

“To me, Clayburgh is a naturalistic ham. She seems to be constantly summoning up her powers to appear not to be acting, just as ostentatiously as, a century ago, a ham actor would have summoned up powers to look theatrical. This reaction of mine is exacerbated by the fact that I find her personality and person unappealing….”

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, March 24, 1982