Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fails to do when he beds down with Felicia minutes after making her daughter). His dailogue runs from such phrases as "Uh...Well...Uh...Geee, I didn't mean that..." to statements like "I don't know, you might be right." With such a seeming refugee from a Woody Allen film, moral dilemmas are sacrificed for laughs and pathos turns into bathos...
Play it Again, Sam. This is many people's favorite Woody Alien picture, probably because it is the most polished, conventional, sit-commy movie that he's made. People want a screen persons for Allen, to fit into the preconception that our favorites must be constants (Grouche, Fields Doris Day). So Alien becomes the schiap-master, packaged and ready for some USC Film Thesis in 1998, "Woody Alien Neurotic as American Hero," Pretty Soon we may want to cuddle him to death. Play it Again, Sam comes from Alien's earlier days (it was a Broadway play) when he needed...
Former Cy Young winner Steve Carlton leads the pitching corps, with Jim Lonborg and Wayne Twitchell in support, comprising a steady starting rotation. The Phillies may receive a needed uplift to their offense if Dick Allen can be procured from Atlanta...
...will be around for a long time. If you haven't seen this movie yet, take advantage of its timely showing at the Harvard Square. Or if you must, go to see Take the Money and Run on the same bill--you remember, that's the one where Woody Allen tries to escape from prison with a take pistol that he whittled out of soap and it rains--but be sure to stay for Monty Python...
Directed by HERBERT ROSS Screenplay by JAY PRESSON ALLEN and ARNOLD SCHULMAN...