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WOODY ALLEN has finally become sexy. All right--maybe not exactly sexy. But certainly Allen's new film Annie Hallis our most appealing picture to date of the archetypal neurotic--now no longer pure nebbish--for whom life consists of only two categories: the horrible and the miserable. As Allen...
There have always been two sides to the Allen persona. One is the neurotic self-pity, echoed in the perpetual plaint, "I would never belong to any club that has me for a member." The other is a neurotic self-indulgence, which expresses itself in fantasy. An element of fantasy...
That believability is what distinguishes Annie Hall from many of Allen's other films. Alvy Singer and Annie Hall are real people--a bit more neurotic than most, perhaps, but still too familiar to be dismissed with a chuckle. Too many of the scenes in Annie Hall strike home--like...
One question Roazen tactfully raises has been the source of considerable, sometimes nasty, speculation and debate. The issue is how much Erikson's key thesis--that much of human behavior stems from the quest for a firm and acceptable "identity"--derives from his possible confusion and embarassment over his own...
Still, for all its absurd complexities, Cussler's plot line is not what finally kills his book. Credible plots are not necessarily the stuff of which good mysteries are made; anyone who believes otherwise should take a long look at the marvelously improbable tales of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha...