 In the end, the blockbuster films and special-effects films of the late 1970s attracted more viewers than the films about the decadent rich.Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" called the film "as witless as it is gutless" and said it "recalls a sort of newspaper journalism you don't see much anymore — the Sunday supplement recapitulation of a famous murder, divorce or other scandal, put together, from morgue clips, and filled out by the writer with breathless speculation about what really might have happened and what really might have been said, always with more exclamation points than are absolutely necessary.It's the literature of vultures who have no interest in tearing into something of the first freshness."