Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Romance is awash in cinematic jokes and asides: Hill laces the action with references to Hollywood lore, his own past hits and Truffaut's Antoine Doinel movies. The film's portrait of young love may be touching, but its most moving moments celebrate love of a different kind: the passion that movie professionals, both young and old, have for their craft...
NONFICTION 1. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Tarnower & Baker (1) 2. Lauren Bacall by Myself, Bacall (2) 3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (3) 4. Sophia, Living and Loving, Hatchner (4) 5. Mommie Dearest, Crawford (5) 6. A Distant Mirror, Tuchman (6) 7. Linda Goodman's Love Signs, Goodman (7) 8. The Bronx Zoo, Lyle & Golenbock (8) 9. American Caesar, Manchester (9) 10. In Search of History, White
Clifford, meanwhile, was practical. "This is great. I'm going home now to my keg and make love to it," he said...
Murray Chass's chapter on the current champions, however, is hugely disappointing. Chass covers the Yankees for the New York Times, and covers them well, with style and accuracy. Here he gives us over 60 pages with almost nothing about baseball but plenty about theh Steinbrenner-Martin-Jackson love triangle. Admittedly, it's fun to read some of Reggie "Reggae" Jackson's egotistical yammerings...
...Manhattan, it is less severe, and Allen's clever lines flow as copiously as ever, insuring that Manhattan is an entertaining movie. But the sheer wordiness of its characters keeps them from being engaging and distances them from any emotional contact with the audience. In farces like Sleeper or Love and Death, of course, no one expected the characters to reach out and seize viewers' hearts. But Allen has broadcast his intention to write serious comedies, or funny dramas. Judged by the standards of serious film he seems to invoke--namely, Bergman--Manhattan falls far short...