Word: phillipic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admittedly, the subject of this film--Jewish identity in the New World--is pretty well worn; everybody from Ernest Hemingway to Phillip Roth has used it with varying degrees of success. The distinctive feature of the topic in this film is that, unlike Robert Cohn or Alexander Portnoy, the principal character never undergoes a genuine identity crisis. Jake never really denies his Jewishness; upon learning of his father's death, he dons the ceremonial Jewish mourning shawl, and even his girlfriend, Mamie Fein, is Jewish. Jake's Jewishness never comes into question because he never departs from the Jewish community...
...Phillip Weiss--Cincinnati in five. The Reds wear their double knits in much sleeker form than the Red Sox. But, then, so did the A's. Still, Cincinnati will burn the basepaths and tatoo the walls...
...FIRST CASUALTY. From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker by PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY...
...hard to believe that before Phillip Knightley took time out from his journalistic duties for London's Sunday Times to write his history of war correspondents, the subject had lain underfoot like an undiscovered gold mine. The events are momentous. As for the correspondents, they are an irresistible assortment of idealists, artists, cads, hustlers, violence junkies and necrophiles...
...perhaps the funniest antiwar movie ever made, but you'll have to be on your toes if you want to catch all of the dialogue. Ditto with The Long Goodbye, where Altman sets a Raymond Chandler novel in present-day California. Elliot Gould is Phillip Marlowe, and he gives the best performance of his career. Watch him fool...