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...many readers of The Ginger Man, James Patrick Donleavy's first and best novel, can somehow imagine its savagely baleful young anti-hero Sebastian Dangerfield being resurrected a quarter of a century afterward and sitting down to compose an advice book for late 20th century man, they should have a rough idea of The Unexpurgated Code. It might well be subtitled I'm Not O.K., You're Not O.K. A collection of bilious and often funny rules for living, the book qualifies as philosophy according to Donleavy's own definition: thoughts generated while confronting "wind, flood...
...imagines a rude, rude walk through "about twenty millenniums," Donleavy suggests: "This could be, for those of you who were expecting an afterlife of courtesy, equality and contentment, a good time to break down and cry." Or bare your teeth, throw back your head and laugh like the old Ginger Man. Melvin Maddocks
What makes Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? entertaining beyond its spirit and charm is the manner in which Writer-Director Philippe Mora has organized the footage and orchestrated it to a period score that runs from Duke Ellington and Woody Guthrie through Rudy Vallée and Ginger Rogers. There is no narration, hardly ever a title to identify a person or event. Fact and fiction are interwoven without distinction. For Mora, the hard reality of the Depression is inseparable from all the fancies it produced...
...Phoebe Laub to Phoebe Snow, a sign on boxcars near her home in Teaneck, N.J. She doted on Shirley Temple movies and Judy Garland records. Later she borrowed from early enthusiasms. "I copped that lick for my refrain in Poetry Man from The Continental in the old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie," she admits. Her parents-her mother was a Martha Graham dancer-encouraged her to study classical piano. With Billie Holiday, Big Bill Broonzy and Bob Dylan thrown in, Snow's personal sound track was varied...
...roadside store, they catch long looks and intimations of menace. There is no safety anywhere. The dog and the wives, all of whom have been provided with roughly the same opportunities for characterization, respond similarly to the situation: they jabber and yap and tremble. The wives, however, are spared Ginger's indignity of being nailed to the door of the mobile home...