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Even though this act is so obvious, Schwarzenegger is still a "personality." His endorsement of any product will not appreciably increase sales nor will the inclusion of him in a movie have any significant effect at the box office. In what the overly glib Tom Wolfe calls the "me" decade, Schwarzenegger is its personification, turning vanity into a sport, and with luck a bank account. The manager of a hotel in which he was staying during his promotional tour best summed up Schwarzenegger's career: "It's just what Cesear Ritz (founder of the RitzCarlton Hotels) proved a hundred years...
...Brooks wants to make a glib movie about modern mores, that is his right-but he should at least take the trouble to articulate his position with some care...
...somebody, somebody you've seen approaching the condition of this man with the musician's fingers that tremble with his second joint. I think of a man who had grown up next door to my best friend in England. Where you can register, legally, as an addict and the glib talkers can proclaim, "See, heroin itself doesn't do any harm. What's wrong is the social system of a country like America, where the addict is a criminal because he's hooked, and because he's hooked he has to become a criminal." And that's all? I wonder...
TARTUFFE by Moliere comedy" is a modern term, Moliere was a master of the genre over three centuries ago. His characters have a schizophrenic quality; their glib and merry lips belie broody, troubled hearts. The present production of Tartuffe at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is infectiously high-spirited, but it scants the biting melancholy wisdom that animates Moliere's satiric moral vision. Fortunately, wading only knee-deep in Moliere is more bracing than total immersion in most playwrights...
School officials have fairly glib explanations about the reasons for the increasing popularity of on-campus housing. Off-campus costs are rising rapidly, they point out, and coed housing has attracted many students. But for this fall's unique and widespread over-enrollment problem, explanations are far less handy...