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...June, Goodwin, also a former aide to Johnson, said he was dropping out of the project so he would not "harm the women I love" and to "dismiss the totally absurd and irrational doubts that it wasn't her own work...
...czarist Russia makes a great backdrop for absurd humor because the ghost of Dostoevsky and his philosophic pals allows Allen to capitalize on the incongruity of ancient questions and modern options ("Moses was right. The good man shall dwell in the House of the Lord for six months with an option...
Love and Death certainly isn't Allen's first crack at absurd humor. Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex was obviously less a parody of Allen than it was of sex. But there was something really unsophisticated, sort of junior-high-bathrooms-giggly about the idea of a humorous breast monster stalking the streets. While Allen is still chasing voluptuous young things--("Do you want some wine to put you in the mood?": "I've been in the mood since 1700")--his latest movie lacks that looking-for-the-dirty-part snickering. Rather, Love and Death finds him more...
...told in a series of quick sense impressions that spin out of each other like the grooves on a record. She seizes the phantom detail that makes a memory jump to life-the texture of a jacket fabric; a room in the Mormon temple; the last words, wrenching and absurd, spoken to her by her dying father: "I'm so hungry...
...because his daughters Goneril and Regan have turned their backs on him but because God has. Shakespeare means us to know that the universe itself has reached its apocalyptic hour, and he asks his white-locked King to look upon the dethronement of all order, a grotesque, absurd, horrifying realm of meaninglessness. Instead, Page has encouraged Morris Carnovsky to stress the "foolish fond old man" in Lear, petulant, bewildered and sorely vexed by his daughters' heartless ingratitude. At 77, Carnovsky is a figure of biblical gravity and delivers the lines beautifully in a voice that retains the dark timbre...