Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the panhandlers and hare krishna drummers outside the Coop to bell-bottomed young professionals lunching upstairs at Barney's, from the little old ladies shopping for bedspreads at Woolworth's to the tight little knots of blue coliar workers who gather at Whitney's every night for a beer after work. Cambridge probably has as varied a population as any other six square miles in the country...
...second girl is Bobbi Michele, a paranoid pothead whom Barney picks up while munching peanuts on a bench in Central Park. He lends her the cash to hire an accompanist for an audition on Broadway. When she shows up at Mom's apartment the next day to repay the money, all of Barney's fantasies of extramarital fulfillment vanish in a haze of marijuana smoke...
...Barney makes a last frantic stab at infidelity with the melancholic wife of one of his neighbors in suburban Great Neck. Now the positions are reversed. Barney, after his combat training, has become the manic aggressor; Jeanette Fisher is the coward, full of fear and un certainty. Barney finally bundles Jea nette into a cab, then goes to a phone booth to call his wife Thelma and in vite her down to Mom's for a romantic afternoon...
Alan Arkin's Barney is a composite of small, shrewd gestures and intuitions, as in a marvelous sequence where he watches Bobbi sing What the World Needs Now Is Love with a mounting mixture of apprehension, thwarted lust and concern that the little old lady next door will hear. Arkin is a vast improvement over James Coco's preening, keening act in the Broadway Lovers, and he has Barney's look meticulously right, down to the monogrammed pocket handkerchief he wears in the pocket of his blue business suit...
...Each Other. Sally Kellerman comes off best of the women, partly because she is the first one we meet. Her Elaine is throaty, sexy, challenging and intimidating. By the time the other two put in their appearances, the whole thing has become for audiences what it is for Barney: an endurance contest...