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...author's fiction resembles the work of such writers as Louis Auchincloss, James Gould Cozzens and C.P. Snow, in that-whatever the theme-in the telling, reason's rule is absolute. This can be a chilly virtue as well as a limiting one, but the limits are generous in Davies' case. His perceptions are wry and tough. The description of one of Ramsay's friends gives the flavor: "He was the quintessence of the Jazz Age . . . It was characteristic of Boy throughout his life that he was always the quintessence of something that somebody else...
...service comedy set during the Korean War and manned by a group of farceurs including Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman and Elliot Gould before he became obnoxious. Ring Lardner Jr. wrote the screenplay and Robert Altman directed, frenetically...
...demonic fray-for-all that only hurt you when you laughed established Elliott Gould as a star, and became the year's hottest comedy...
...LOVE MY WIFE is just about what you'd expect from the author of Getting Straight and the director of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium: a limp, adolescent, pseudo-hip study of the comic agonies of an unhappily married contemporary man. Elliott Gould, of course, is the star, and he shuffles through the cretinous proceedings with the guilty look of someone who has been through it all so many times before that he should know better. I Love My Wife is the kind of assembly-line candy bar movie that induces in an audience rage...
...Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, 1931-1951 by Chester Gould. 291 pages. Chelsea House. $15. Despite 27 bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his adult life, Dick Tracy manfully survived the two decades here recorded. Inevitably, though, the collection is a celebration of scurvy rogues and criminal grotesquery (The Mole; Flattop; 88 Keyes, the larcenous pianist; Jerome Trohs), because the bad guys in Tracy are always more interesting than the detective and his crew of crime stoppers. Gould is a crafty if somewhat primitive storyteller, and this ponderous volume is still exciting enough to be read with something...