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...smaller places. He believes that the immense cities often overwhelm the people who grow up there, discouraging them before they reach the age of leadership. In smaller places, he reckons, hope, a certain confidence and an ability to cope are nurtured. Boorstin is intrigued at how some of the open-air, back-fence values of Editor William Allen White, the Emporia sage of the 1920s, have re-entered the national discussion and how the small-town wisdom and wit of Will Rogers have been rekindled on the stage with amazing success by James Whitmore (who also does a nice impression...
Down below, in the open-air boxes, the governor of New York, sat with ten of his twelve children. Within a week he would allow Patrick Cunningham to proceed with his quest to get himself re-elected state Democratic chairman, legal problems aside. There were those who implied that Governor Carey's decision was affected by the fact that Cunningham's counsel in a key legal fight was Edward Bennett Williams, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and close friend of Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss...
...Larry, Lenny Baker personifies the flaws of the film. Leading a seductive tango or impressing a film producer with his wit, Larry is as adept as any young actor could hope to be. And he is even better at impersonation. Waiting on an open-air subway platform in the middle of the night, he comically plays Brando, Edward G. Robinson, his mother, and himself accepting an Oscar to rounds of imaginary applause. But Baker can't play without posing--his mouth freezes into the armored look of detachment...
...answer, all the way round, is not really. Neil Simon has adapted the movie from his play, and it is business pretty much as usual. Director Herbert Ross (Funny Lady) has managed the proceedings reasonably well, which means making the movie look as little as possible like an open-air Broadway performance. Simon has a palpable fondness for his two antagonists, but he has attempted nothing distinctive in the script. So if his virtues remain constant -smooth craft, mild amusement-so do his failings. His work all seems replaceable, interchangeable, like those inexpensive lighters that work every time...
JAPAN. Where the traditional greeting is a bow rather than physical contact, politicians maintain almost total aloofness. During election tours, the Prime Minister and other leaders are constantly surrounded by police, making their open-air speeches from sound trucks and never mixing with the crowd. They wave to the crowds from inside, and when a stop is made, a corridor of police forms for the politician to move from vehicle to building. Breaking through such lines to shake hands is all but unheard...