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...Love and Death, Allen takes his fantasy setting to its logical extreme--a-lavish Tolstoy Russia. It works, but not as an unseemly setting for a slapstick stooge. There's no question that Allen's stock formula has hit home to a lot of losers and tickled a lot of losers-watchers, but when you get right down to it, it's a pretty thin joke. There are only so many laughs to the 98-pound weakling dilemma, whether it's set at muscle beach or Martinique. And it is where Allen scrapes the dregs of slapstick gags that...
...would choose if one were putting together a museum exhibit on the subject. But it does have its transcendent moments, and the time in between is at last, steadily enjoyable. The Loeb's production has been mounted faithfully in the true twenties style with a vaguely art, does set lavish costumes and lost of energetic dance numbers. Director Josh Rubins has carried this historical faithfulness over in the acting style, too: the broad, farcical characterizations second forced at, first, but once you've gotten used to the production-after the first scene or so--slapstick and mugging seem like...
...ruled a three-state empire of some 1,500 Mafiosi who ran gambling, narcotics, prostitution, loan sharking and other underworld ventures. At the height of his power, Giancana lived relatively modestly in Oak Park with his three daughters-his wife died in 1954-but vacationed on a lavish scale: Miami Beach and Europe in the winter, Paradise Valley near Las Vegas in the summer. While visiting Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1960, the don noticed Singer Phyllis McGuire standing at a blackjack table, seemingly bewildered by the game. He gallantly offered some expert advice and began a long romance...
...luxurious but tasteful architecture and rustic charm proclaim heavyhandedly that we have entered another world totally alien to Clara's seedy three room tenement and grimy factory. Here Clara has everything she has been denied all her life, a room of her own, time to herself, wealthy girlfriends to lavish clothes on her and teach her how to be a lady men to admire her. This topsy-turvey world works an instant transformation on Clara. The haggard lines painted on her face disappear overnight and with them the shabby working-class hausfrau; in her place stands an elegant fashion plate...
...cover story on next fall's ready-to-wear collections from Paris. Though the contents of WWD and W are similar, the look and feel of the two differ markedly: WWD is a newsprint tabloid while W is a full-size newspaper printed on heavier stock with more lavish color illustrations. A Quality Publication, as W might...