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Directed by BOB RAFELSON Screenplay by JACOB BRACKMAN...
MOONCHILDREN is itself an elegiac treatment of the charms--as well as the costs--of the fabled put-on (a form first given definition by Jacob Brackman in the pages of The New Yorker not so many years ago). If you ever went crazy for the Marx Brothers, memorized Soupy Sales routines, religiously watched I Love Lucy and Rocky and his Friends, fell in love with Holly Golightly, you have an instinctive feel for the form. But Weller's not only concerned with the surface jests. They're there to be enjoyed ("Hey, you decided what ya gonna do when...
...seems odd to emphasize personal jockeying, it won't after you've read the book. For only the personalities emerge from it with some clarity and vigor. You may not find much important about The Virgin and the Gypsy and Five Easy Pieces from Penelope Gilliatt's and Jacob Brackman's respective reviews in the New Yorker and Esquire, but you will remember that the critics write long summaries in seamless prose, and are apt to get a bit drippy when the right nerve-end is touched. You might remember even more: that Gilliatt likes cultural detachment and civility...
...Swettham and Annie Buxton. The Good Guys came right back on a single and a walk driven in by a long double from the redoubtable stick of Tiger Dan Donovan. Then all three pitchers (the CRIMSON unveiled its deadly platoon system, alternating between southpaw Rick Hertzberg and northpaw Jake Brackman) settled down to business...
...next seven innings bingles were hard to come by. Crimson batters couldn't get hold of Justice's slow, spinning bloopers, and the Good Guys went down looking as Brackman and Hertzberg rifled 'em down the pipe, fanning a total of 14 between them. Lee Simowitz's head-over-heels circus catch in the sixth robbed WMEX of its only shot out of the infield...