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...name, drama is all new, and he claims to be, as usual, nervous. "I can't guarantee the outcome," he says on the set. "I'm going to prove that comedians don't make great actors." The lovable shlemiel of Sleeper and other banana-peel epics is playing love scenes without his usual co-star and onetime roommate Diane Keaton. "We're just very very good friends," insists Allen. "We haven't been, uh, that way for years." Allen is even managing without his familiar props. "There is nothing big in the film," he says...
...Because we're journalists," Anne interjects. "If you're a journalist what you do is hopefully peel back a few layers...
...obscure the fact that he heads one of the more innovative and efficient police forces in the country. Crime is rising in Los Angeles at an annual rate of 7%-only half the nationwide rate of increase. And Davis deserves much of the credit. An admirer of Sir Robert Peel, who founded Britain's nonviolent and respected police system, Davis follows the British practice of running a strong community-relations program. He gets his cops into living rooms to talk crime prevention and build trust. "It's working," says City Councilman Bob Farrell, a black who represents part...
...Wyoming threw us off the back of the land. She erupts in wide wings of earth, shucking off the road like a peel of plastic on an orange juice can. A bent, black ziptop on the unyielding earth. Bare and mute. Wyoming swells to dwarf the trucks hard-panting up her hills. In rust hues the sky descended upon her forlorn tracts, swallowing puny hamlets: a cafe, a grocery store, a gas station, a truckstop, a few shacks, 200 people--all in white; and blistering vacant roads. Over the endless, straight, dust-heaped earth, the van torches...
...generally takes some basic slapstick and Marx Brothers stuff, slathers it with the savoir-faire of the horny ethnic loser, and hurls the whole concoction into an unlikely context, usually the heroic fantasy world of the shlemeil. What he does is magnify the possibilities of the social banana peel. A Jewish herd blowing a date in the Bronx is one thing, but a Jewish herd posing as a Cuban dictator in bed with a sultry revolutionary who tells him he looks a lot like a Jewish herd she used to know is quite another...