Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first of three parts of a projected trilogy, Hugo Taluncci creates one-third of what may be the cinema's quintessential allegory of fascicm. The first installment of his sweeping triumvirate of panoramas, The Boston Telephone Directory uses the alphabet as the ultimate symbol of enforced order. "A," cries Arnold Aaron, a political theorist who works night shifts at a sausage-stuffing factory to maintain contact with the people, "must come before B. When D comes before C, we face revolution!" Neither a book nor a photograph, this movie walks a thin line between cinema and film...
JOHN D. TUNLOP is formidable in his role of every Bostonian whose last name begins with A. As Arnold, he concocts the ultimate bureaucratic vision--income stratification according to the first letter of each person's surname. "There's got to be inequality," Tunlop muses, putting down his Adam Smith. "The best we can do is to make poverty as arbitrary as possible...
Steven Zygerberger (Sam MacGintis) has already drawn up plans to foil Tunlop's dastardly decision. Together with Howard Zinn (Sam MacGintis) and Elmo Zumwalt (Sam MacGintis), Zygerberger hypnotizes all Bostonians whose names begin with letters A through D. After inducing amnesia, he threatens to rename them at random unless Arnold and Michael Applethrope (John Tunlop) promise to leave the country. Tunlop, as Arnold, suggests binding arbitration...
...When it comes down to it," Arnold sighs, "the rest of the world besides me is made up of idiots--January morons, February imbeciles, March hares...
...darkness while she thinks he is young Christian. The other players fall far short of Plummer's commanding performance. Leigh Beery, as Roxana, is a better singer than an actress. In his role as Christian. Mark Lamos projects little personality. Some of the finest performances come from supporting players-- Arnold Soboloff as the poet Ragueneau, and James Blendick as Le Bret, the captain of Cyrano's company...