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Last week United Airlines Flight 826 from Tokyo experienced this special brand of aviation hell, leading to 83 injuries and one death. Though life-threatening turbulence happens far less often than the mild rumbles most flyers experience, it is still all too common. On average, 17 U.S.-based planes get slapped around enough to cause injuries each year; between 1980 and 1995, 129 people were seriously hurt, two fatally...
...borrow the rant of Network's furious prophet of the little screen, Howard Beale: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore...
Where to start? Here's the short version: Deconstructing Harry, the new movie from writer-director-actor Woody Allen is a) very funny, b) very unfunny, c) very personal, d) strangely detached, e) dense as hell and f) strangely unsatisfying. Here's the long version...
...Very funny. Woody's still Woody, and as such, Deconstructing Harry is not without its moments. Late in the film comes a brilliant, enormously funny sequence in which Harry descends into Hell for a chat with the Devil (Billy Crystal, having the time of his life)--who, incidentally, is an old friend who stole Block's nubile young student-girl-friend (Elisabeth Shue '88). Most of the humor here is fresh, dead-on and perfectly timed. From the miscellaneous tortured souls ("What did you do?" "I invented aluminum siding") in the netherworld to its wonderfully nefarious ruler...
...Dense as hell and strangely unsatisfying--Deconstructing Harry is a long 89 minutes. Jam-packed with tons of characters, more vignettes than Short Cuts and loads of references to Allen's previous movies, the film never sits still-but it never really goes anywhere, either. For all of its stylistic variety and experimentation--the Peter Greenaway-esque Hell sets, jarring time shifts, jump cuts and film loops--the film leaves the viewer with a feeling of emptiness. It touches upon all of the classic Allen themes, but in its hurry to make an all-emcompassing (and, in the end, annoyingly...