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...House and such Saturday Night Live gang spinoffs as Trading Places. Landis' most successful work has come from his association with the late John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and other SNL types. The Landis picture screened before the seminar, An American Werewolf in London, is a comedy-horror riot, simply plotted and masterfully executed, and laced with the kind of suburb-smart dialogue that engenders instant identification, from Great Neck, N.Y., to Encino, Calif...
...week's end an estimated 8,000 riot police stormed the campus, battling students for two hours before gaining control. When it was over, 42 students had been injured and more than 1,400 detained...
...this film, however, Durang's heresy is dull, and his perversions are pat. When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...
...sound a warning against interracial marriages. In "First Manhattans" when it is apparent that Annalisa Livingston and Kenny, her Black chauffeur are going to sleep together, Gilchrist has Kenny think, "these white women go crazy if you make them come." At this point the reader balks. Is the verbal riot in the dialogue of the women just sound and fury camouflaging stereotype...
People always talk about a riot of autumna color. It seems a little more subdued in Vermont Occassional trees splash their color. And one tree stands out on a road through a Vermon town--bright orange next to a plain white house...