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What will Mel Brooks and his little band of comic brothers do when they run out of old movie genres to parody? In the course of a distinguished career in anarchy, Brooks himself has taken on the backstage musical, the western, the gothic creature feature and silent comedy. His sometime star Gene Wilder made steak-and-kidney pie of the Victorian detective romance in Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother year before last. Now we must somehow come to grips with another Brooks star turning director-writer in'order to send up a formerly beloved movie form in a show...
House of Wax (in 3-D) at 5:45, 7:45, 9:20 and special midnight shows Friday and Saturday. Star Wars are still being fought over at the Sack Charles I (227-1330) at 8, 10 and midnight. Robert Altman's California gothic 3 Women is playing next door, at the Charles II at 7:45 and 10. Jackie Bisset and Nick Nolte play beautiful but vapid people in The Deep at the Cheri III (536-2870) at 8 and 10:15. New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets and Taxi Driver) and starring Robert DeNiro...
...episodes and traumas often veer toward the neo-Gothic, with social secretaries replacing spinster govenesses, and gay cousins occupying closets that mad old women once inhabited. Auchincloss also occasionally mires himself in melodramatic ramblings that he evidently perceives as powerful prose ("Orgasm with David was like the raising of a communion cup before an altar that knew no sacrament but love.") but these indulgent tirades are only sporadic; Auchincloss is generally a smooth and vivid writer...
Back when he was a high-school senior opening his gothic-lettered acceptance letter, Sam thought Harvard was really going to be the place to be, a place to meet consistently brilliant, well-adjusted, interesting people...
...late-afternoon traffic jam clogged the Via Nazionale outside, Archbishop Coggan spoke challengingly to a congregation of Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy from the gothic pulpit of the American Episcopal Church of St. Paul. In announcing his desire for a shared communion now, the Archbishop argued that the churches face "an evangelistic task whose size escalates with the multiplying millions. 'Talk to us about reconciliation,' a skeptical world says to us, 'when you yourselves are reconciled.' " Noting that in many areas of the world Anglicans and Catholics already drink from the same chalice, Coggan asked...