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...director begins by asking the volunteers to act out scenes from childhood. One patient portrays a child playing with toy soldiers. He says he is blowing up his mother and father with a tank. A second man is told to imagine being discussed by his parents at a cocktail party; when an actress begins playing the role of his mother, he breaks down and decides to leave the cast. On the third day, Bergman asks the patients to design a set for the play. One draws two doors labeled PAST and FUTURE. Another draws two glasses of gin labeled MINE...
DISENCHANTED housewife...white house in Long Island fully-equipped with bounding sheepdog and Lincoln Continental...chic cocktail parties in Manhattan that one expects Robin Leach to attend...and other cliches of the Yuppie generation ad nauseum. "These are a few of our favorite things," croon the directors and producers of today's American film industry. With Hello Again, Director Frank Perry takes off on these themes and runs with them in circles...
Hello Again abuses the talent of its cast with an inexcuseably trite fairy tale of a plot. Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a frumpy, suburban housewife who feels somewhat displaced in the glitzy Manhattan cocktail set that she mingles with for the sake of her ambitious husband (Corbin Bernsen). "Isn't this party just suhblime!" coos Lucy's best friend and society beauty, Kim (Sela Ward). But nervous Lucy commits one social faux pas after another, culminating in a grand exit down the balustrade where she exposes more than just her sheepish grin...
...Insurance rates go up, insurance companies make a bigger profit. More profits, more jobs for insurance salesmen. More insurance salesmen, more boring cocktail parties. Bad parties, less drinking. Less drinking, higher efficiency in the workplace, larger profits, a better economy...
Lampoon editors share Snit's conciliatory tone. "As soon as the first issue of Snit comes out we'll host a cocktail party for everyone who worked on it," said Lampy Narthex Paul R. Simms...