Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author Isaac Asimov turned down an invitation Monday to speak at the Senior Class Day ceremony. He joins a growing list of celebrities who refused the same invitation, including woody Allen, Lily Tomlin and Orson Welles...
...fifth and sixth singles provided a little comic relief, as Kevin Shaw and Greg Kirsch robbed their opponents of all but five games. Shaw humbled Allen Barnes at live, 6-3, 6-0, and what can you say about Kirsch's 2-and-0 victory over a guy named--get this--Evan Bash...
...blame for the failure must be equally divided between a feebly developed script and stupefying direction. The basic story is a Bad News Bears knockoff. A down-on-his-luck Hollywood talent agent (Allen Garfield) becomes fascinated by skateboarding kids as he commutes to and from the unemployment office. He decides to organize a team to put on exhibitions and enter the competitions that are a growing part of this phenomenon. Pressed by a gambler to pay off a debt, he unpleasantly pushes the kids, loses his star on the eve of the big down hill race but sees...
Perhaps we should credit Woody Allen with popularizing these neo-Freudian ideas about wit. Allen manifestly began tracing a path through his jokes into his unconscious, often parodying Freudian symbolism but in the process probing among the tickles for that raw spot which when touched would twitch with pain. Sometimes wit--which most people think of as an aid in relieving anxiety--becomes the enemy: a steadfast shield that keeps our insides moist and pink, halting our emotional development and hindering our ability to be intimate with other people. So much...
...Woody Allen and Jason Robards and Vanessa Redgrave and Diane Keaton and Annie Hall. The old Academy showed some integrity after all. All the smart money said that the Academy wouldn't like Woody because Woody doesn't like the Academy. We hear that when he won the big one he was home cooking lobsters...