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...this musical runs long enough to generate word of mouth, the word is likely to be "blah." Not that Goodtime Charley is malignant; it is merely inane. It is not clear how the notion entered the producers' heads that the saga of Joan of Arc raising sword and soldiers to have the Dauphin crowned King of France (while she ultimately dies at the stake) had the makings of a musical comedy. At that crazed moment, they should have consulted an exorcist...
MacLaine has inherited her fair share of this sort of charm. In her second book about herself, she skips winningly over the quicksands of human nature and power politics, and still lands on her feet. You Can Get There from Here is basically a comeback saga. In 1971. she stumbled badly in an inane and short-lived TV series called Shirley's World. In the role of a global journalist, MacLaine had hopes of playing herself: an openhearted, open-minded, outspoken female. The show's producers wanted a clever career gal who keeps her pantsuit on and plays...
Broad Strokes. The tour covered thousands of carefully supervised miles, from bustling Canton to the Yenan, where Mao and the revolution began their own comeback saga. "I found my self thinking with such broad strokes in China," writes MacLaine. This turns out to be one of the understatements of 4763, the Year of the Hare. She enthusiastically quotes official statistics, re ports having seen only happy Chinese faces, and announces the arrival of the "new man," free of competitive greed...
...party that the street citizens give Cooper). But, like Roth, he mistakes obliquity for essence. The Nickel Ride is a film of well-turned surfaces whose terse and moody lines dress up, but do not disguise, a shady frame. This is after all another installment in that sadly ongoing saga of contemporary man fighting to stay alive in a world he helped make but no longer can quite control. Cooper carries a lot of keys to doors that have stopped opening. Mulligan and Roth make a great show of unlocking doors that have been ajar for a long time...
...first necessary to get the cast of characters straight. There are five principal actors in the bizarre Rosoff saga: 1) Jo Oppenheimer, 39, tousled, troubled and wealthy; 2) Adolph ("Dolph") Rosoff, 52, a familiar Greenwich Village character, who is now languishing in jail; 3) Thelma ("Teddy") Sucker Feldman, 51, his longtime companion and a self-styled therapist, who is also in jail; 4) Micah, 25, Teddy's son by a 1945 marriage, who spirited David away on Dolph and Teddy's instructions; and 5) the missing David, who is now twelve, the offspring of Jo and Dolph...