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...navel and found François Truffaut. And Woody Allen, whose films find their strength in reflections on his life and the lives of the beautiful battered people around him, has retreated into an anguished remake of 8½. In Stardust Memories, he has erected a movie-studio cage around his experience and produced pictures of his bars and his keepers...
Because Woody Allen, like Fellini, has an acute sense of the absurd, he can see as much humor in his own splintered isolation as he can in the clumsy attempts of outsiders to break into the cage, to crash the cocktail party inside his head. Stardust Memories is a schizoid invitation to that party. The card says: COME ONE, COME ALL. BRING YOUR OWN BOOS. And in a fine hand at the bottom you can read: TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT...
...after three years spent doing housework for 30 male commune members--Harrison painfully squeezed out of the narrow cage of fundamentalist repression. Today, she is an independent, divorced Brooklyn feminist with two children. Her unshackled intellect hasn't destroyed her; it's made her one of the hottest magazine writers in the country. But as the essays in this first collection demonstrate, she can be what the church fathers had feared: a predator in prose. She's always on the prowl for the villains that disfigured her youth hokum, slovenly thought, and moral spinelessness, the national pastimes of American...
Elizabeth Taylor, playing Mary, Queen of Scots, is peremptorily directing her director: "Jason, will you get that creep out of eye line?" "Who, me?" snarls Kim Novak, elaborately gowned as Queen Elizabeth I. "Jason," Taylor continues, violet eyes flashing, "would you put the Virgin Queen back in her cage?" A feud on the set between two aging prima donnas? Yes and no. The sniping is all in the script for The Mirror Crack 'd, a film based on a 1962 mystery novel by the late Agatha Christie. The two '50s movie queens portray two '50s movie queens...
...playing hearts while he waits for a quorum to form. Once enough playmates have arrived, Brett is first on the field, shagging flies in the outfield, playing pepper on the side, joking with fans in the stands, gamboling around the bases after he finishes his turn in the batting cage. "Young Willie Mays must have been like this," Reserve Kansas City Royals Utility Player Jamie Quirk once said of Brett. "To George, playing baseball is just plain...