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Part of the great black swirl of gossip now encircling Woody Allen is the confident assertion that in his new movie, Husbands and Wives, Allen plays a college professor who makes love with a young woman student a third his age. And, oh, in Manhattan didn't he and Mariel Hemingway play a similarly mismatched couple? In Hannah and Her Sisters didn't he imagine an affair between a sister and one of her brothers-in-law? No one recalls that Manhattan's middle-aged male ended up miserably alone, and that the scandalous tryst in Hannah was not joyous...
...what Husbands and Wives really imitates is some of Allen's best work. A professor (Allen) is indeed attracted to one of his students (Juliette Lewis). But she is seen as a girl with a dangerous itch for older men, and though the teacher knows temptation, he faces it down...
Anyway, this is not the film's central concern. Allen, his wife (Mia Farrow) and another couple are trying to live with the dulling compromises of long liaisons, yet also searching for sustaining warmth as the chill of the years settles on them. Trial separations, silly affairs, are the results, not the causes of their anguish...
...solo job and awarded a sitcom. There, major pitfalls await them. Some are exposed as Johnny-one-notes (Kevin Meaney in Uncle Buck); others are simply unable to make the transition from joke telling to character building (Richard Lewis in Anything but Love). Only a few -- Roseanne Arnold, Tim Allen -- succeed without selling...
...Woody Allen has always been a hero of mine,"Dershowitz said. "I still think he is one of thegreat filmmakers of all time," he said