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...Sealphumnters, with Burt Lancaster and Ossie Davis, marked an innovation in the genre. As Pollack says, "It was a black and white film before black and white films were popular, a kind of funky morality play, a bit larger than life and full of a strange kind of banter." Like Jeremiah Johnson, however it did retain elements of the traditional Western...
...Neil Simon script is blessedly free of the frenetic banter of his plays. The plot, taken from Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, A Change of Plan, is a bright comic idea: a man on his honeymoon falls in love with another woman. Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting goods salesman in New York, marries a sweetly vacuous girl named Lila Kolodny (Jeannie Berlin). The wedding is small, echt New York Jewish, with folding chairs in a rented hotel room and piped-in music featuring a recognizable and wildly inappropriate soft-drink jingle...
...SUNSHINE BOYS by Neil Simon. Funny and touching, as two ex-vaudevillians trade irate banter and cup their ears for remembered applause...
...copywriter who once wrote short stories. She is a devoted but mildly discontented mother of two tots. Since they both approach adultery with the subdued ardor of a visit to the dentist, an enormous burden is placed on the dialogue, which is not saucy enough as banter and not solid enough as humor. Anne and Paul finally do play connubial hooky, but the sheer logistics of an illicit affair soon drive them, with considerable relief, back home...
...fact, as the voters are constantly rediscovering, both appearances are somewhat deceiving. Pat on the stump is full of banter and mildly flirtatious, brimming with a zest for meeting people. She tackles a crowd of strangers like a bee that has spotted a new clover field. She does not simply shake a hand, she cuddles it in both of hers. She hugs, touches, pats, squeezes. She scoops up small children with easy endearments like "Dolly," or "Sweetheart." She almost never makes formal speeches, nor does she directly praise her husband. "I can't boast for my family," she explains...