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...General (Keaton) and The Music Box (Laurel and Hardy), Saturday...
...acquaintance with their new language. Out of the melting pot and into an empty classroom drip a Frenchman, an Italian, a German and two Oriental women, none of whom has any language in common with the others. Nor, it turns out, does their late-arriving teacher, Debbie Wastba (Diane Keaton), have anything but pantomime and a feverish determination to fall back upon as she goes about her unfamiliar duties (she is certified as an instructor in business administration...
...Keaton who keeps the evening a-Eve. As she has demonstrated in several Woody Allen movies, she is wonderfully attuned to the nuances of neuroticism as it exists in a certain type of young American woman. Allen movies, however, are not vacuums that need filling, and so she has never had the opportunity for the full-throated, full-throttle exploration of an uptight woman trying desperately not to show her true colors...
There are, in her performance, at least half a dozen Debbies: a falsely easy-mannered hipster, a stern elementary school disciplinarian, a sexual paranoiac (she is convinced the school janitor is a rapist), a multiprejudiced xenophobe, a cruelly playful child and, finally, a vulnerable woman. Keaton can expose all these creatures in a single whirling moment. She cannot save the show, but she has definitely announced her ability to stand independent of Allen as a delightful comic force to be reckoned with...
...American Ballet Theater at Manhattan's Uris Theater, and it just might be the most important event of the dance year. With cinematic speed, the cast of characters tumbles around the stage to the sounds of Haydn's 82nd Symphony. Isn't that Buster Keaton? There's Joe Namath and a courtful of jokers, heroes and heroines all. Linked by sheer velocity, the steps merge in combinations that are silly and daring. Brises follow splat falls; dreamy waltzes erupt in staccato spasms of movement. With deadpan wit, 16 girls perform precise glisses while their heads wobble...