Word: roundelay
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...common point: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who has two sisters, Holly (Dianne Wiest) and Lee (Barbara Hershey), and has been married twice, first to Mickey (Woody Allen) and now to Elliot (Michael Caine). Eventually, each sister has an affair with one of Hannah's men. Elliot begins the roundelay by lurching into a mad pash for the beautiful, cheerful, lost Lee. Perhaps he is weary of Hannah's competence; she is a kind of live-in social worker for her sweet, nerdy husband. Lee, for her part, is tired of baby-sitting her European boyfriend (Max Von Sydow) and is ready...
...rocks on the floor as he clings to the second girl's leg; another boy pulls that boy's foot. "Too easy," Julie shouts. "Take your risks, ladies and gentlemen. Family machines." A girl begins, "Gimme," and continues repeating the word as at the start of a roundelay. A boy chips in "No," and continues to say "No." Second boy: "It's mine." Second girl: "Will you stop whining?" Third boy: "Shut up." The family machine roars. Applause, whistles, whoops. Circle again. Julie: "Start a feeling." One: "I'm happy." Each follows with own intonation until "I'm happy" goes...
There is enough of the old Woody Allen in AMNSC to remind the still faithful of the old abundant pleasures. The interweaving themes are sex and love; the tone is summer-solstice warm; the six characters dance an amorous roundelay whose steps are guided by biology, sympathy and caprice. Woody is again the chronically lovable shlemiel, torn between his passion for the ethereal Ariel (Mia Farrow) and his longing for the wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes...
...idea-at least an angle. But the intent of Peter Bogdanovich's new film remains one of the year's more dispiriting mysteries. Perhaps he had in mind a country-music remake of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night:eight characters play a romantic roundelay during a week in Manhattan. Maybe he wanted to reunite the galvanic stars of Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline: Ben Gazzara and Audrey Hepburn play the most prominent pair of lovers. Or did the director of The Last Picture Show and At Long Last Love hope to execute a triple...
Some day, Valerie says, sounding for the first time like a young woman only a few years beyond childhood, she would like to be a cattle rancher, or maybe a politician. Neither the matronly married life nor the perpetual roundelay of cafe society holds much allure for most of today's models. If they are not would-be actresses like Shields, they have other aspirations. Iman wants to write children's books. Dickinson recently came back through the looking glass, moving behind the camera to shoot a designer showing for Italian Harper's Bazaar...