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...year. By pumping up the economy, the deficit encourages spending on imports. At the same time, the federal red ink helps keep interest rates high, which discourages investment in the plants and equipment needed to produce American goods that could be exported or substituted for imports. Says Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "Whatever we do on trade is a sham, a complete waste of time, unless we begin to tackle the budget deficit...
...plot of Play It Again, Sam is a simple and perfect vehicle for Allen's shlemiel persona, here called Allan Felix. Felix's wife has just left him, and he bemoans his impossibly bad luck with women. His harried businessman friend Dick Christie (Nick Raposo) arrives with his flaky wife Linda (Lucy Soutter) to comfort him. They try to fix him up with dates until Felix realizes that he's fallen in love with Linda, and that through his relationship with her he's finally overcome his total lack of confidence with women. Along the way, Felix, a writer...
...whole of this Dunster House production is marked by tight direction, lively acting and capable technical work (especially by the sound people, who dug up some great Thelonius Monk as background music for Felix's unlikely attempts at seduction). Everett is especially good in the lead, believably lovable and neurotic, but he really couldn't steal the show from this well-balanced cast...
Andrew Osbourne makes a divine Bogey and gets lots of laughs with his high-collar trenchcoat. Don't worry about women, he advises his hapless apprentice, "It's nothing a little bourbon and soda wouldn't help." Felix answers, "If I had a thimble full of bourbon, I'd go out and get tattooed...
...cameos are real scene-stealers, though, with first-place going hands down to Lara Palevitz as Felix's dream version of his yet-to-arrive blind date. Palevitz plays her as a paragon of the 1940's cigarette girl ultra-bimbo and draws many a chortle...