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...Scarecrow and Seagulls. Despite the cost and difficulty of keeping 20 people employed and paid for the six months it took to make, Ruckus Manhattan is closer to the street than the museum. It is cobbled together from the lumberyards of So-Ho and hardware bazaars of Canal Street, permeated with the hoarse side-of-the-mouth loquacity of a kvetching cabbie, swarming with grim and gaudy figures who, says Mimi Gross, are true New Yorkers, being "nosy, curious and short." There is a gritty and lugubrious side to the Ruckus imagination. Some of the figures are gross ham-faced...
...Scarecrow, 4 and 8 p.m.; and Minnie & Moskowitz, 6 and 10:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday only...
...laundering and woodchopping, they arrange to have the girl educated by a nearby white family. Convinced that Treemonisha's learning is a threat to them, Zodzetrick and his fellow conjurers kidnap her for a night of voodoo-like terror. Rescued by her friend Remus (disguised as a scarecrow), Treemonisha astonishes everyone by urging forgiveness. "You will do evil for evil, if you strike them, you know," she tells her people. They understand and acclaim Treemonisha as their leader...
...paces through this film like a rush hour shadow, mustached and anonymous, sitting in his car playing magnetic chess, inconspicuous in a plain coat and tie. Hackman works wonders with a part like this: when he isn't cast as the big blustering shove-around of Popeye Doyle or Scarecrow, or squandered in a mistake like The Poseidon Adventure, he's our best interpreter of the middle-class presence: not the hero, or the anti-hero, but the unhero, making his own blind...
...neither the sense of childlike innocence nor the wonder of revisiting a durable fable is lost. Stephanie Mills, wistful and staunch as Dorothy, sings like an angel on furlough. Her companions, the Scarecrow (Hinton Battle), the Cowardly Lion (Ted Ross) and the Tin Woodman (Tiger Haynes) are equally winning and bring complete conviction to their roles...