Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your review of Cartoonist Edward Sorel's Super pen [June 19], you state that Woody Allen is depicted as Satan...
Surely, Mr. Sorel intended Woody Alen to represent a creature known in Greek mythology as a satyr. Or maybe Pan, the great god of nature. Either would have been more applicable than comparing him to the devil. Come on now -Woody Allen the incarnation of evil...
Outrageous!--Only Woody Allen at his best could outdo some of the one-liners in Richard Benner's brilliant comedy about a female impersonator's rise to stardom and the whacked-out woman behind the success. Craig Russell's unabashedly gay hairdresser has graced us with a character we will not soon forget, completely stealing the show in the movie's plot and in the movie itself. His series of famed singers and actresses belting out "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" will bring down any house, so carefully honed are his Channings and Ellas. Co-star Hollis McLaren...
...Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a staunch supporter of Israel who drew much heat from the Israeli lobby when he backed the Administration's sale of warplanes to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, was "in complete agreement" with Javits on Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands. Los Angeles Rabbi Allen Freehling, president of the Southern California division of the American Jewish Congress, took issue with the position of his group's national leadership. "I refuse to go along with the philosophy that you don't criticize Israel in public," he said. "I think Javits' statement...
...Jerry Lewis telethon: "Maybe some day science will find a cure for Multiple No-Talent." Sorel's style is best when it reveals the foibles of its subject graphically: Gloria Steinem as a knight in tarnished amour, Scoop Jackson as a sheriff with a beltful of missiles, Woody Allen as Satan. His critiques of the Watergaters lean too heavily on the obscene- but then so did the malefactors...