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...source of the somewhat dispirited fun is Allen's play of the same title: standard long-running Broadway stuff about the romantic tribulations of daffy film critic Allan Felix (Allen), whose wife (Susan Anspach) has just left him. Felix also worries a lot about his sex life, which, because of congenital clumsiness, is virtually nonexistent...
From time to time the slouch-hatted and trench-coated shade of Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy) appears and dispenses bits of hard-boiled advice to the lovelorn and loveworn Felix. With such expert assistance, Felix finally beds a kindly but dedicated neurotic (splendidly played by Diane Keaton of The God-lather, who spins something funny and touching from the script's few scattered remnants...
...lust quieted, Felix is promptly besieged by a battalion of guilts. The girl is the wife of his best friend (Tony Roberts), who was too busy with financial wheeling and dealing to pay proper attention to her. Remorse. Anguish. What would Bogie have done? The ectoplasmic Bogart steers Felix through an honorable leave-taking at foggy San Francisco airport-Casablanca come true...
...Department was prosecuting corporations merely for their "bigness." Mitchell claimed that the discussion was "entirely theoretical," yet at the time it was held, the antitrust division had only four "bigness" cases pending; three were against ITT. Mitchell also declared that twice last April he had met with ITT Director Felix Rohatyn, but not to discuss any ITT business...
...Brien-any connection between the convention cash and the antitrust settlement and insisted that neither he nor Mitchell had played any role in the department's negotiations with ITT. On the contrary, Anderson wrote, Kleindienst had in fact held several meetings on the case with ITT Director Felix Rohatyn before the settlement was reached...