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Directing a cast of serious, capable actors, Coe can allow herself plenty of zany liberties with their creative abilities. "The props include an adding machine and roller skates," she says, "and Moliere's poetic interludes that divide the three acts are set to Golden Oldies. Moliere is one of the most traditional of the French comic dramatists, but by escaping the mannerisms of the day and by capitalizing on his comic strength, impeccable dramatic construction, his remarkable sense of character, we have given ourselves the freedom to enjoy Moliere to its fullest...
...politics has no action. I'm only doing this because they pay me and my old man says Mills is a strong fella." He was about 17 and had no front teeth. "If you want action you should come down to the Guard Armory on Saturday and see the roller derby. There's action for you. They beat each other up, kicking with skates, they got women doing it, everything. And they do real fancy ballroom type stuff too. Roller skating is a real sport...
...coles allows America's lost children and their parents to describe themselves, he also stresses the importance of the tenuous adjustments and tacit arrangements that these people make to survive in a hostile world. Yes, holy-roller religion diverts ghetto residents from a consideration of their real enemies, but it also gives people the strength to go on in a world of adversity. Meaning is given to people's lives through their religion, the world is a fearful place, a powerful God gives strength in Roxbury or in Chicago's Uptown, we who do not live there must always...
...Matthews' "Agee at Time" is the picture of a man seen only in peripheral vision, as though the prospect of Agee's life at the time was too much the front cart in the roller coaster ride for Matthews' queasy stomach. In this episode of Agee's life, he is the reviewer who stays up all night rewriting a review which already went to press...
Passer tries to range too widely between humor and horror without catching the link between them. Similarly, Schlesinger fuses the diverse cultures of London, as when his middle-class doctor hero encounters a pack of freaked-out roller-skaters careening past his car. Nowhere does Passer even suggest any side of New York other than the dank underworld and the faceless corridors roamed by George Segal--except perhaps at the very end when he walks away on a bright city street and disappears, followed by two brisk, unconcerned city slickers. He and his world have vanished without a trace...