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...Hart faltered in explaining them. His aides recently persuaded him to write an autobiographical article, "One Man's Luck," that would answer those lingering questions and dispel the sense that he was detached from his own roots. The article, which has not been published, reveals much about Hart's boyhood and his early hopes and dreams but offers only the most cursory explanation of his failure to recall the year of his birth. In recent appearances, Hart has routinely made self-deprecating jokes about his age. Yet when a reporter brings up the age issue during a relaxed dinner...
...with their repressive new society. Devin Milford (Kris Kristofferson), a former antiwar activist and candidate for President, has just been released after six years in a prison camp. Returning home, he finds his proud but disillusioned farm family hanging on to the last vestiges of their dwindling land. A boyhood friend (Robert Urich) has become a county administrator and, almost against his will, a rising star in the new government hierarchy...
...after all, one of the peculiar aspects of senility that it tends to derail the brain into the trackless waste of childhood reminiscence. Allen wanders through such barren terrain in Radio Days, a series of vignettes drawn from his boyhood during the glory days of radio. Time progresses, but to no discernible end. While the vignettes are not quite incomprehensible, they certainly are not laden with meaning, either. Kind of like Reader's Digest...
...such a large extent, entirely a product of Woody Allen. More than a fictionalized memoir, Radio Days is a tribute to Allen's work, to his friends, and to himself. This would be fine, except we have seen it all before: the indulgent self-references in Stardust Memories, the boyhood reminiscences in Annie Hall, and the constant cameos by personal friends in virtually everything he has ever done. The only thing he hasn't been able to reuse from his earlier films is their freshness...
...without a trace of irony, "is the most interesting fact of my life." He talks eagerly about going to games as a boy and watching the old Newark Bears of the International League along with his older brother Sanford and his father, now a retired insurance-company executive. His boyhood passion was the Brooklyn Dodgers. "I went off to college, and then the Dodgers went off to L.A.," he says, shaking his head. Eventually, he transferred his allegiance to the New York Mets. Last summer he had a dish antenna installed atop an outbuilding on the Connecticut property...