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...years, usually on TV shows like Tonight, and have helped Albert Brooks, 28, win a reputation as the smartest, most audacious comic talent since Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. Brooks traffics not so much in jokes as wild ideas, bits of madhouse theater. His material offers no snappy punch lines to repeat next day at the office. Brooks makes comic epiphanies out of the giddy, gruesome excesses of popular culture. Like some antic Pirandello, he uses comedy itself as a major object of satire...
...about to leave the Sack 57 any minute, has very little in common with its predecessor. The original French Connection was made by that slickest of American directors, William Friedkin, and it was seductive stuff. It helped demonstrate, like Don Siegel's Dirty Harry, that Charles Bronson--like punch-'em-up movies, seemingly innocent if a bit violent, could be fascist. All they needed was a good director, and it was enough to scare you silly--not what happened on screen, but the way you were responding. These pictures didn't necessarily bring out the stormtrooper in you, but they...
High expectations tend to be deadly with any Altman film. Most movies shine when their openings become public events--it's a long tradition for the two to intertwine. Some filmmakers almost appear to anticipate it. In Jaws, for instance, half the punch of the first scene comes from the publicity. Knowing what's going to happen makes an innocent event like a young woman skinny-dipping on a summer night doubly frightening. A movie like laws thrives in the public eye because it delivers the goods. The Exorcist procliamed that it had a couple of jackpots--the crucifix...
...greedy ways. Nichols tampers fatally with the format by making the heiress the one who wants to give it all away, and the two men selfish dopes who don't deserve the money but apparently get it anyway. The moral simplicity of the tale is so distorted, and its punch so diluted, that we end up disgusted with the heroes and indifferent to the outcome. Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, and even Mel Brooks in his undisciplined way are intensely moral comedians; they treat comedy as much conflict between concepts of good and evil as tragedy, and accordingly are very...
...fairer pastures in another city. And a trade or two, for reasons we shall see, should be high on the agenda. Some say that Juan Beniquez, a left fielder currents injured, would be a good bet to barter. An abominable fielder, he's speedy and a solid punch bitter who engineers enough singles to put him at a steady ...300. His Spanish speaking origins drove one local expert to predict that he would in fact be traded, inevitably, for twelve packs of baseball cards and a print of Birth of a Nation...