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...treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles a martini shaker, apparently hoping that agitation will pass for action. As for the Great Depression during which Molly ostensibly takes place, traces of it are visible on the brows of the audience, but it effectively eludes the men who wrote the show's much-doctored but uncured book...
...Varrick, Matthau preserves a certain feckless, shambling decorum. He dispenses his lines with the wry authority of a bartender adding a twist to a martini. There is also an especially sharp performance by Sheree North, portraying a shady photographer. The movie, overall, is smoothly customized entertainment, but Siegel has a weakness for gratuitous cruelty. A few scenes have a seaminess that goes beyond simple atmospherics. · Jay Cocks
...standard scholarly clutter of his office, a roomy faded yellow stucco house with his wife and three children, a 1968 Volvo to get back and forth between them, and faint daydreams of some day chucking it all for isolation in Vermont. Then one evening, in the middle of a martini and a TV episode of The Avengers, Washington called...
...might expect a President of the U.S. to use the most advanced Mission: Impossible gadgetry to record his conversations for posterity. But Nixon had no need to. The Secret Service men who, on his instructions, tapped his telephones and bugged his offices, shunned such gimmicks as radios in martini olives and aimed instead for the clearest possible transmission (or "fidelity") of conversation right down to the last lisp. They tapped the Chief Executive's phones by connecting them directly to the banks of tape recorders in the White House basement. Recording began automatically when the President used a phone...
...Harlem shot (125th and Lenox probably). But this is obviously not Harlem, because this Harlem has no people, only pimps and pimp cars. It's a set piece, all clothes and cars. The Superfly ripoff is appalling. The book prided itself on a painstaking accuracy, from Bond's particular Martini to a long, well-researched passage on Caribbean voodoo. The movie confines itself to elaborate coffee makers and magnetic watches...