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...Pesci works his scuzzy Leo Getz character hard to take up the slack, but he's oldish news by now--and so are the film's action sequences, all frantic variations by director Richard Donner on gags we've seen before. New news Chris Rock works harder than anyone else trying to get laughs as a young detective helping the old pros pursue a gang that's smuggling illegal aliens into the country, but he's caught red-handed trying to steal the picture. Get some sneakers, kid. And try whispering...
...audience's ducts to float the U.S.S. Nimitz. Make Way for Tomorrow, Leo McCarey's 1937 surefire crier about an old, disowned couple is something of a can't lose proposition from the director's point of view. The performances though, are simply impeccable. There was a stock of oldish actors in Hollywood in the thirties that a studio could draw on to play the ancient, sweet and wise. This picture has two of the best--Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi. Moore especially, hesitant, stuttering and practically irresistible had already cleared a career as one of Broadway's great musical...
BACK HOME the ADA was never like this. You expect staunch liberals, oldish, straight-backed, and supremely moralistic. And so you are surprised when you step into the gilded ballroom of the Sheraton Plaza Hotel and find 800 Americans for Democratic Action-young and fashionably dressed-minis, midis, maxis, and even a pair of hot pants. Paying $1250 a plate for dinner, they are at least reasonably well off, and their clothes suggest that they are even better off than that. The guest list is heavily studded with Jewish names, but it also includes a few McKay...
Walter Dilger is too old to be a member of YAF, but he attended a lot of the conferences. He's from Dayton, Ohio, a small oldish man who's taken college courses in economics and political science at night, and just before the "anti New-Left" workshop broke up, he raised his hand and stood up to say, "I'm not surprised that the [campuses] were for Nixon, because the liberals spent twenty million dollars to put Nixon in office. He talks real conservative, but you look at his policies and he acts real liberal, especially in school desegregation...
...erupted: "It is detestable," said one, "to advance the age of anxiety in such a manner." Said the Paris-Presse: "They have created a competition for little monsters." Last week Education Minister René Billeres backed down, promised to give the flunked eleven-year-olds a more eleven-year-oldish exam...