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...Melinda and Melinda, written and directed by Woody Allen, is nothing new: well-dressed and self-absorbed New Yorkers cope with the particular ennui of having too much money and too much free time...
Radha Mitchell plays the fetchingly neurotic female lead, Melinda, a rich doctor’s ex-wife who can’t seem to pull her life together enough to find another husband. Though Allen fans may enjoy the now-familiar neuroses and emotional repression, Melinda suffers from a lack of originality that its overdone subject matter only emphasizes...
Playing off the idea that the line between comedy and tragedy is hair thin, Melinda and Melinda tells two parallel stories of one neurotic woman, Melinda. The formal agenda is augmented by a framing device wherein dapper middle-aged New York playwrights enjoy a leisurely lunch and, in the course of discussing the two genres, ad lib the stories of Melinda for the entertainment of their friends. The dramatist weaves a “tragedy” while the comedy writer composes a “comedy...
...Film Comment, associate editor Melinda Ward and I put together a special issue on Cinema Sex (January-February 1973). It included Donald Richie's report on Japanese eroductions, Ray Durgnat on Jess Franco, Stephen Farber on sexual censorship in California, my long interview with Metzger and Ebert's definitive study of Meyer (which is quoted in the first pages of The Other Hollywood. My favorite essay, a real startler, was Brendan Gill's on porno films. Brendan, a New Yorker staff writer for a half-century, and author of the magazine's unofficial history, Here at the New Yorker...
...Melinda you play a nice girl from Connecticut. Is that you? I like to think that I'm a nice girl, but I was very angry growing up in Darien [Conn.]. The girls were very nasty. It was like, "Your dad drives a Hondayou're poor. My dad drives...