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...Indian movies, not even kissing is permitted, though frottage (the rubbing of one clothed body against another) is allowed. Moviegoers get mainly what Shashi calls a kedgeree (a spicy dish of rice, peas and shredded onions). This appears on the screen as a mishmash of singing, dancing and bare fisticuffs, all revolving around impossible plots in which babies get swapped by villainous doubles and village belles with painted fingernails run off with rich landowners, who leave wives of unimaginable fortitude behind them. Into this unlikely mix go dubbed songs by so-called "playback singers," who become stars in their...
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman [Feb. 23]-the funniest show on the tube; the cultural and emotional mishmash of life in our bizarre and beloved America. I am addicted to Mary Hartman just as I am to eavesdropping on conversations in public transportation. Both are biographies of human affectations, human error and the strange sweet tangents of human love. Like the rest of the species, Mary Hartman is lovably low-and respectably high...
...begins with an astonishing historical mishmash...
...speak--virtually all the authors are Harvard-connected, and all but two of those are undergraduates. The numbers that get the biggest laughs and seem to ring the truest are, not surprisingly, the ones that involve Harvard in-jokes. "Dean Epps' Love Song" by Philip LaZebnik, a mishmash of double talk that praises love as a viable alternative, somehow sounds funnier than it really is, but "Caesar's Wife" by Peter Homans and Bill Johnsen, which has a whining Sissela Bok complaining about all those cocktail parties and privately longing to be married to "a Brutus," is right...
...screenplay gives the appearance of being thrown together, it's really striving for a rigidly defined meaning. When Arthur Penn's directing is as appropriately open-ended as it is, then the hinted Wisdom of the script passes by even faster. Penn has a better way of conveying the mishmash moral atmosphere of Night Moves than Sharp's riddling. The director hasn't done anything except a quick segment of the Olympics in Visions of Eight since the days of Little Big Man, Alice's Restaurant and Bonnie and Clyde, and here he's much more easy going. He shoots...