Word: casablanca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Press, Casablanca, the Tennis and Squash Shop and a few other heavies cater to the particular desires of the sons and daughters of the ruling class. They do very well...
Thru Tues.: Casablanca...
...Casablanca is arguably the best piece of movie romance ever to work its way onto the silver screen. It's all there: love and war, heroes and villians, sentiment and more sentiment. If that's not enough there's Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. And if that's still not enough there's the most touching line in all of movie history: "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Bogart reportedly picked the movie's ending because it made his mother cry. If it doesn't do the same...
Play It Again Sam and Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? are being co-featured at the Orson Welles Cinema I until Saturday. Woody Allen's take-off on the Casablanca theme is not only hysterically funny, it's heart-rending as well. Both Allen and Diane Keaton give lovely performances here. This one is worth watching again and again. Where's Poppa? is usually pretty tasteless and it belabors an already overworn joke to the point of tedium. In all fairness, though, the movie has its moments. Complete shows start...
...place to consider becoming a regular at is the Club Casablanca (40 Brattle St.). Divided into an upstairs (where many Harvard Sperrytopsiders types hang out with their junior college girlfriends) and a downstairs (where older people listen to music), the Casa B appeals to two different types of people. Upstairs at the Casa B is a real experience. Especially on weekends, it is mobbed, noisy and full of people you may come to recognize if you go regularly. It is also expensive, probably the highest-priced bar in Cambridge...