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...some of the text panels read like term papers. Ignore them; play hooky in your trash-collector's soul. Enter phone booth-shaped screening rooms to watch clips from All About Eve or Mary Tyler Moore's last episode with commentary from Directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Jay Sandrich. Model costumes of the stars, like Marilyn Monroe's dress from The Seven Year Itch, before a fun-house mirror. Lay your own sound effects over the dialogue of a TV commercial or movie clip. Browse through the media memorabilia of a zillion middle-class childhoods: the Cisco Kid coloring book...
Directed by Jay Sandrich...
Simon has written funny plays and films, and will again. Jay Sandrich directed TV's finest comedy show, Mary Tyler Moore; he may someday learn to shape character and situation to fit the big screen. Goldie Hawn will remain the put-upon pixie into her twilight years. And for Chevy Chase, as for the most miserable sinner, there is always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis...
...book gets no lift from Mark Sandrich Jr.'s music-to-yawn-by, and Director-Choreographer Michael Kidd unleashes his dancers only once for some sword and gun play. No one could coax a poor performance out of Robert Preston, but his hard-sell charm, snap and gusto create the curious impression of a history-book minstrel man in whiteface. Still, he could save the show if there was one to save...
...persistence this durable G.I. is rewarded, after his divorce at picture's end, with a woman who (as conceived by Producer-Director Mark Sandrich) has neither head nor heart, nobility nor warmth...