Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finance's Proctor, named Allen...
Television: Woody Allen makes a funny return...
...movie Allen plays Walter Hollander, a New Jersey caterer vacationing in Eastern Europe along with his wife and daughter. They are mistaken for spies, and take refuge in an American embassy being run temporarily by the ambassador's bumbling son (Michael J. Fox). Despite its dated cold war plot, the 1966 play shows that Allen even at this early stage was a skilled farceur. The Hollanders' presence in the embassy causes mounting chaos involving a visiting emir, a fugitive priest who does magic and a stuffy embassy official who gets conked on the head and thinks he's the Wright...
...Bullets, Allen renders scenes in long, uninterrupted takes, when cuts and close-ups would serve the comedy better. But the old gags still work, and Allen is at home as the neurotic Jewish father, worried about indigestion, his daughter's boyfriends and escaping from the Reds on sore feet. "I can't chase," he says. "I got arch supports the size of barbells." Ah, the old days...
...ever since the 1976 debut of his four-hour epic Einstein on the Beach, Wagnerian in length and scope if not in idiom; and the Wagnerian ideal has been evident in much of his later work as well -- in Hydrogen Jukebox's marriage of Minimalism to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg (1990), and in 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988), which combined David Henry Hwang's text and Jerome Sirlin's images...