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...teams were blessed with more and more All-Ivy selections each season. There were runners like Bill Ray Hornblower; defensemen like Grana. Bobby Leo, Vic Gatto, and Don Chiofaro, Dave Poe, John Tyson, John Hoffman, and John Emery...
...scenario is a combination of Harold Pinter and introductory civics. Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the son of a deceased diplomat who arrives in London to live in his father's former residence, an opulent mansion surrounded by slums. The neighborhood teems and festers while Leo laments his own lethargy. "I can't get involved," he moans, "what can I do?" He passes most of his days pressed against an upstairs window, telescope to his eye, watching the human comedy unfold in the shops and tenement windows across the way. When he is not peeping, he is halfheartedly fighting...
Eventually, political involvement becomes the only way out. Improbably but gloriously, Leo discovers himself out on the street leading the entire neighborhood in a guerrilla action against his own house. The people survive, but the house does not. "Well," says a neighbor, "you didn't change the world, did you?" "No," Leo replies with wistful optimism, "but we changed our street.' That single exchange is a pretty good indication of Leo the Last's shortcomings. The movie does not so much compress serious social problems as belittle them, then finally resolve them with a whimsical and faintly...
...that for wit and impact are unmatched since Richard Lester's Petulia. One group-therapy session in a swimming pool, for example, does expertly in a fleeting interlude of screen time what the first minutes of Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice tried and failed to achieve. Leo and Margaret are jumping nude up and down in a swimming pool, surrounded by dozens of other patients, all under the supervision of a benign instructor, who keeps chanting, "Reach out, stretch out, feel the water. How do you feel?" "I feel wonderful," gushes one flabby matron. "I feel liberated...
...Like Leo the Last, The Landlord concerns itself with a guilt-ridden property owner in the middle of the slums. Unlike Leo, however, The Landlord is a glossy, flat, fake Hollywood attempt at black social comedy...