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...blitzed-out party guy. The other group-the inspired mimics who hid themselves behind the galaxy of comic characters they portrayed-looked both stretched and cramped when, in a movie, they were required to inhabit only one personality. From Sid Caesar and Carol Burnett to Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner and Aykroyd, these performers had enough energy and scarifying talent to burst out of the small screen, but lacked the strong, smooth identities that Hollywood could package as star quality...
...admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion shows are done for press value first and foremost, not for the buyers. I can't get word out there...
...actors lumbering across the screen to their designated mark. Context is all. To use only snippets from these movies, as It Came from Hollywood does, is to deprive them of their paper-thin texture. In an attempt at the That's Entertainment of bad films, five comic actors-Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, and Cheech and Chong-introduce segments about gorillas, musicals, reefers, mixed-up teens and the mesmerizing oeuvre of the Poverty Row Stroheim, Edward D. Wood...
...funny, human moment, and if Hanky Panky had 30 or 40 more of them it might have been a congenial little picture. It certainly would have been better if Gilda Radner had not decided that for her next impersonation she would do a romantic ingénue. She is, in lantern-jaw looks and brash spirit, unsuited to playing such a role straight and apparently unwilling to parody it. Wilder seems so embarrassed for her that he tries to do the acting for both of them, with results that strain his normally funny interpretation of the coward who finds...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Gilda Radner, 35, onetime Roseanne Roseannadanna and Ba-ba Wawa of Saturday Night Live; from G.E. Smith, 30, rock guitarist; after two years of marriage; in Hollywood. Radner and her husband split a month ago, after she and Actor-Comedian Gene Wilder teamed up both on and off the set of the film Hanky Panky, due out next month...