Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humans. The field is littered with "magic bullets" that failed, among them monoclonal antibodies, tumor necrosis factor, interferon and interleukin-2. While all were initially hyped as potential cure-alls, they have turned out to have only modest usefulness in the war on cancer. At best, says Dr. Allen Oliff, Merck & Co.'s chief of cancer research, no more than 10% or 20% of agents tried in mice succeed. (On the other hand, the treatments that are good for people are almost always good for mice...
...flailing, ten-minute performance when his lips have failed and his clarinet reed won't vibrate properly. Though the same scene played just as gruelingly and effectively in 1995's dramatic film Georgia, the sequence brilliantly captures the audience's experience of watching a doomed performance, as well as Allen's own furious determination to literally breathe the life back into his music...
Further evidence of Kopple's sagacity appears in the dialogues she has chosen to include in her film. Any movie ultimately rides on what is or is not cut, and Kopple and editor Lawrence Silk have chosen impressively candid, crystalline moments through which Allen and his companions represent themselves. His assertion that "I just don't want to be where I am at any given moment" speaks as informatively about his personal-life problems as it does about his approach to touring...
Have I mentioned, though, how uproarious thiswhole thing is? Allen arrives in London, theband's final stop, with the prediction that thistime "they'll hate me in my own language." Betweenconcerts, as American tourists in ritzy localesflash his photo with starstruck squeals, hewonders why people who will fly overseas to takehis picture "won't pay ten cents to see one of mymovies...
...Blues is a lively, belly-laughcomedy that neither cheapens its subjects forlaughs nor reveres him too much to make fun ofhim. Of the non-documentary films released so farthis year, only Love and Death on LongIsland maintains such jubilant gigglesalongside real psychological acuity and with realdramatic flair. Woody Allen himself is filming ascript called Celebrity to be released thisfall. He will be well-challenged to study andvitalize the phenomenon of fame as sharply andengagingly as Kopple does here