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...TRIFLE MORALISTIC, perhaps. More mature, too Gone is the bitter chase after the brainless goddess. He's gotten her and discovered that he would rather have his wife. Perhaps this change has taken with it the side-splitting humor of Sleeper or Bananas. Not to be misleading; this film is not unfunny. If it were not "the new Woody Allen" it would undoubtedly receive uniformly more positive reviews than it has. Sex Comedy provides at least a half dozen good chuckles and a continuous grin. At the beginning of a new phase. Woody Allen is learning to be both funny...
...only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the Via Salaria, the salt route, over which Roman soldiers marched and merchants drove oxcarts full of the precious crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay-consisting in part of salt-came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word...
...eerily appropriate that Lillian in the film is Kim Stanley, the imposing stage actress who 25 years ago played yet another troubled movie star in Paddy Chayefsky's The Goddess. Stanley still has star quality: when Mel Brooks, Hollywood's reigning zany and the executive producer of Frances, was told that she might be available to play Lillian, Brooks jumped on his desk for joy. Stanley, the holder of a master's degree in psychology from the University of Texas, looks at her role and says, "Lillian mixed her identity with Frances'. She was in love...
Naturally, all ends well for all. The entire cast is tiptop, though when Hepburn smiles, audience eyes are bound to be glued to the sun goddess. The unlikeliest sight of all is the closing scene on the stage of Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater, when Katharine Hepburn "fakes" humility...
...closeup. Distance and involvement, irony and sympathy. Working with Playwright Michael Weller, his collaborator on the 1979 film version of Hair, Forman concentrates on one main story and one subplot-Coalhouse Walker's rise to notoriety and Evelyn Nesbit's career as America's first sex goddess-and only glances at or ignores the rest. By taking 155 minutes to tell less than half of Doctorow's 270-page pageant, Forman and Weller have created an impressive but strangely lopsided movie...