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...BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon has adapted his boffo Broadway comedy to the screen with no loss of humor, largely owing to the retention of Original-Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the canny addition of Jane Fonda...
...Barefoot in the Park is one of the few plays to be reincarnated on-screen while playing on the Broadway stage. Happily, it loses little in transition...
...potato chips. Two spoiled young honeymooners (Robert Redford and Jane Fonda) settle into a six-flight walkup in Greenwich Village. In Ogden Nash's phrase, "a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable." And so it proves in Barefoot. The puny pad she has chosen has no heat, no bathtub, and a hole in the skylight...
...declares, whose idea of fun is walking barefoot in the park in 17° weather. "Your laundry arrived," she simpers. "They stuffed your shirts beautifully." But if the couple's happiness seems as short as their tempers, their misery is just as temporary. By the final reel they are neck and neck in a race for the bed, and even Natwick and Boyer have found something in common-stomach trouble...
...next time Sione played was at Harvard's first practice last year, where he ran barefoot over the Crimson's finest scrummers. He started the first game -- after his teammates persuaded him to wear spikes to prevent injury -- and has been a starter ever since. "I still haven't gotten used to shoes," Sione says. "They slow me down -- and I can't drop kick as well with them...