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...with a pretty, peckish wife and a five-year-old adopted son. Allen's take on marriage is bleak, clueless; he sees it as a prison for two, where the condemned finally rise to a level of reciprocal pity. But in spite of all this, Allen still has his deft sense of humor: there's a good movie lurking behind his public troubles. "The suspicion lingers that Woody Allen deserves a good spanking, and not from a cheerful prostitute," says Corliss. "But listen: humor and sentiment can triumph over stern morality any day. 'Mighty Aphrodite' reminds us that Allen...
...made even harder by the extreme concision of our Milestones section, where newly admitted angels (and devils) must dance on the head of a pin--100 words or less. That's why we're fortunate to have Michael Quinn, who specializes in animating those angels with a few deft strokes...
Remember when cockroaches were romantic? Mary Cantwell's Manhattan, When I Was Young (Houghton Mifflin; 214 pages; $21.95) is an unusually deft contribution to the durable genre of memoirs on the theme of How I Came of Age in a Greenwich Village Walk-Up, Married an Intellectual and Learned to Survive on My Own in the Big Apple...
First there is Stauffer, who is the Wayne Gretzky of this squad. Perhaps the top player in the league and one who competed in this past summer's U.S. Olympic Festival, Stauffer's deft footwork leaves most opponents in the lurch...
...frame. The dwarf feels he's being exploited. Then there's movie star Chad Palomino (James Le Gros), an idiot hunk who unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist; imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman. The film is funny without pushing it and is acted with a deft, manic touch...