Welcome to L.A. (1976) review

There is a lot of bed-hopping in the City of (Dirty) Angels: Garbo-obsessive Karen (Geraldine Chaplin) is in a loveless marriage with her husband Ken (Harvey Keitel) - who's cheating on her with Linda (Sissy Spacek) - and becomes fixated with musician Carroll (Keith Carradine), who's busy sleeping with real estate agent Ann (Sally Kellerman) and photographer Nona (Lauren Hutton) ... who's been taking pictures of all of them.  Playwright Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde is the clear influence, but there's little cohesion to the scenes: Rudolph's script just skips around almost randomly, and the characters are both sad and hopelessly full of themselves.  To make matters worse, the songs by Richard Baskin are a new level of terrible - so much so that I had to lower the volume when he started "singing" (which happens entirely too often).  Since it's set during Christmas Time, everyone involved should only get coal in their stockings.