Word: mia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like all of Inge's best plays, Sheba is slight of plot but musky with atmosphere. An alcoholic chiropractor (Philip Bosco) and his slatternly wife (Shirley Knight) live in a dreary house in the Midwest, diverted from maudlin introspection only by their boarder, a sprightly college student (Mia Dillon). Doom seeps through every dusty curtain. Although the husband is supposedly recovered, it is apparent that he is looking for an excuse to take a drink. Although the college girl is beloved as a surrogate for the couple's baby daughter who died 20 years before, it is evident...
...generously obliged, in part by junking some of the analysand mannerisms that infected him and his female co-stars over the past few pictures. Danny is the least "Woody Allen" of Allen's screen incarnations. As Tina, Lou's nails-tough mistress with a heart of rhinestone. Mia Farrow is a coarse delight; this is her best work since Rosemary's Baby. Bright as the spangled jacket of a has-been crooner, funny as any Broadway comic could dream of being, appetizing as a pastrami-on-wry sandwich at the Carnegie Deli, Danny Rose is almost impossible...
...MIA FARROW Manhattan...
...LEONARD ZELIG WAS NOT a happy man. By taking on the traits of everyone else, he left none for himself. He went into therapy with Dr. Louise Fletcher (Mia Farrow) who after extensive sesions in isolation, cured...
...conception and exhilarating in execution. It is a parody of a television documentary, one of those compilations of old newsreels, scratchy recordings and animated stills held together by a voice-over narration. This material is supported by modern interviews, shot in jarring color, in which aged witnesses (among them Mia Farrow, who plays his psychiatric savior) testify about Zelig's life. They are abetted by modern "experts," among them Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Irving Howe and Bruno Bettelheim, in effect playing themselves playing themselves. Like Allen, they have perfect pitch. But Allen skewers not only the modern TV form...