Word: screening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Joan Crawford, seventyish, strong-willed actress who rose from cho rus girl to grande dame of the screen; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...that the screen romance ends happily; the film is, on the contrary, an attempt to dissect its failure. But within the context of loss, Allen exhibits an enviable ability to do and say the things the rest of us only dream of. On the simplest level, that means cutting through the polite dishonesty that garbs social interchange. When Annie admits she's not busy either Friday or Saturday night, Allen asks her, "How come you're so popular? What have you got--the plague?" And when they go out for the first time, he requests a kiss smack...
Many of these fantasies--in fact, much of the film's humor--depends on the use of technical gimmickry. Allen's fascination with the split-screen, voice overs and the like is occasionally the most part, it serves to underline it's concern with the contrast between life as it is and life as it should be. This divide is exploited in one of the film's closing sequences, in which Allen watches two actors perform a scene similar to the one which has just taken place between Annie and him. The only difference is that in the play...
Field said scientists put on "a special kind of glasses" which screen out metaphysical questions and only let through experimental data...
...Tower room and wait. At the end of the news at eleven, Jack Cole (a neo-Byronic hero himself, with his own three-piece suits and tough guy act) would make some off-hand comment about the man with the lollipops and then Kojak would appear on the screen...