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...inanimate star of the evening is Sam, a crystal ball that tells the future incorrectly. Hackett, a Coney Island sharper turned pseudo-Freudian mind-sweeper, has great faith in Sam ("it comes from Bombay, the farfetched East"). Under Hackett's lunatic gaze, Sam's face turns red, as well it might, since in Act I the crystal ball mismatches two pairs of lovers: an arm-twisting loan shark (Steve Roland) with a taffy-sweet Ferris-wheel operator (Karen Morrow), and a glib but honest-hearted Coney barker (Richard Kiley) with a roundheeled golddigger (Luba Lisa...
...Orange juice is dispensed by Jet-Cool machines, which overflow glasses, create a Coney Island atmosphere and lower the number of vitamins in the juice...
Bullets the size of Coney Island fishing...
What follows are views of life among such ethnic fringe groups as Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews, a band of Rumanian gypsies at Coney Island, a voodoo cult in Harlem, Japanese Buddhists on Riverside Drive, New Year revelers in Chinatown. Paradoxically, while poking through the city's sociological byways, Gaisseau misses the singular flavor of New York almost entirely. Like many other well-meaning tourists, he makes a superficial tour of the melting pot but overlooks the fire that keeps it going-the fast, fierce, savvy modernity of a great metropolis...
...much, much greyer than La Rand, but the stripper and the seaside town both exude a garish, garter-snapping exuberance that has largely disappeared from affluent America. The boardwalk - and for most visitors the boardwalk is Atlantic City - is an unbelievable anachronism, a eupeptic blend of pre-war Coney Island and a Victorian mu sic hall, where vulgarity, dodgem-car din, sentimentality and pushy camara derie reign uninhibited and unabashed...