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...this were not enough, a light drizzle turned to a downpour, leaving concentric ripples in pools collecting on the grass and washing away the faded chalk outlines of the soccer field. One sensed that a drama critic would have written "overkill" and "too long...
Well, Altman's legend will not stand on this little contestant, no matter how much Vincent Canby cheers her on from the sidelines. But chalk it up mostly to Altman's never-failing eye for realism. Because once having chosen this metaphor--a band of bad actors for a generation of gun-slingers--Altman portrays an acting troupe as he knows most of them to be--generally hungover, self-deluding, myth-gobbling and over-rated. So the real question remains: why choose this metaphor in the first place? Maybe Altman just wanted to give his real actors an improvising...
Their contest should be among the most literate and witty in the nation this fall. During a panel discussion after the primary, Buckley referred to Moynihan as "professor," somehow managing to evoke with his richly cultivated tone the image of a chalk-dusty elitist woefully out of touch with reality. Up shot the Moynihan Mephistophelean eyebrow. With mock outrage he fulminated: "Boy, this campaign is getting rough. I might call you a businessman...
...Israel to a virtual alliance with Lybia. While the pathology of Amin's anti-Zionist position is explored in detail, in all its vicious paranoia, no serious effort to explain the political and/or economic motivations of his new alliance is attempted. It would seem that one is meant to chalk the whole thing up to the whimsical ways of a deranged dictator...
Bugsy-currently doing turn-a way business in London and scheduled to open Stateside in mid-September-fits into that peculiarly British tradition of grown-up childhood literature. Consider Never-Never Land transported to 1929 New York City and Peter Pan sporting a chalk-stripe double-breasted. The imagination stretches but does not break. There is a certain bizarre continuity there, although Alan Parker, 32, sees his creation more modestly, as a sort of ebullient novelty. "I knew that if I were ever going to break into dramatic film," he says, "I'd need an angle...