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...REST of the cast members deliver uniformly fine and funny performances. Charles Grodin, as Pat's plastic husband Vance, has perfected his wimp's smile and slouch; he's made a career of portraying obnoxious sissies. Ned Beatty is appropriately sleazy as Vance's boss, the advertising king who wants to hide the secret of Pat's shrinking because it could cause a "crisis of confidence in American consumerism...
...revive the tradition, or at least prop up the corpse. In Seems Like Old Times (S.L.O.T. for short), he has updated Leo McCarey's delicious romantic farce The Awful Truth, this time with Chevy Chase in the Cary Grant role, Goldie Hawn as Irene Dunne and Charles Grodin as Ralph Bellamy. If the new cast spells magic to you, rush to S.L.O.T. You'll see Chevy stumble down an entire hillside and get his nose bobbed by a series of vengeful swinging doors. You'll see Goldie giggle and mewl her way through a dozen predictable dilemmas...
...Tyler Moore; he may someday learn to shape character and situation to fit the big screen. Goldie Hawn will remain the put-upon pixie into her twilight years. And for Chevy Chase, as for the most miserable sinner, there is always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis. But how long can he play second banana, on whose sleek skin the other actors do pratfalls? Perhaps his next film...
...Tomlin, include "a life-size kitchen, one for when I am 3-ft. tall, a huge countertop for when I am 6 in. and, finally, an enormous sink." The last is the scene of an apparent tragedy. There, next to the deadly garbage disposal, Pat's husband (Charles Grodin) learns, a tiny tennis shoe has been found-all that is left of his little woman. Has Kramer's life come to a grinding halt? To avoid giving away the ending, let it be said only that Pat has gone on to bigger things...
...Prisoner of Talk. A zany new comedy by Neil Simon about four wacky Manhattan divorce lawyers and a custody suit not to be believed. Starring Jill Clayburgh, Marsha Mason, Charles Grodin and Alan Alda. "You will break your heart laughing"-Gene Shalit...