Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambience. He's old, has a bad stomach and a game leg. Besides, no one hires private detectives anymore, unless it's for something screwy like finding a kidnapped cat. This is the first key angle in Robert Benton's script: the once respected and feared detective who's fallen on fallen times. Then there's the other angle: the funny lady who actually does ask him to sleuth down her cat. The woman, Margo Sperling, is played by Lily Tomlin. Her character comes straight out of a stock bit she does on television specials and in night-clubs...
...driving layups by Ellen Hart and the Fulton aerial spectacular destroyed SMU, and as the game's end drew near, the blue and gold players were ready to roll over and play dead, having fallen completely out of touch with the game's pace...
Though they continue to attract murderous misfits like Fred Cowan, the nation's neo-Nazi organizations have fallen on hard times. The anti-Communist cold war tensions of the '50s and the civil rights clashes of the '60s nourished their sick ideas, but the hate groups have languished since then...
...terminology is not a mistake. Herb Gardner has not so much adapted his Broadway comedy as retyped it in screenplay form. Despite a fair amount of New York City location shooting, the old act breaks are so apparent in the movie that it is as if a curtain had fallen to mark them off. Worse, the dialogue retains its aimed-at-the-balcony archness, a self-conscious cuteness that destroys any hope of inducing a suspension of disbelief. Nobody -thank heaven-talks like this for more than a few moments at a time, and two hours of such highly stylized...
...Fallen into sleep in vain...