SUSAN TYRRELL DIED earlier this month, and the reports say she was sixty-seven. Maybe that was so, but if so in Fat City, made in 1972, and her great work, she would have been twenty-seven. I find that hard to credit, but every time I see Fat City I am asking myself how a woman like this ever got into a movie that was produced by Ray Stark! The exclamation mark comes from the fact that Stark also produced Funny Girl and The Way We Were. He liked things nice and glamorous, and there’s nothing wrong with that, especially if you’re a bum or a barfly in the Californian Central Valley where it’s hard enough to scrape together ticket money to get into a movie and enjoy the cool air. If the air conditioning is working.
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