Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deal, Richler wrote a bad book. His film, on the other hand, is a disaster. The man couldn't cut good screen dialogue with a Bowie knife and his facility with visual humor ends at the level of the dated "Expose Yourself to Art" poster. Clearly, Richler is treading in unfamiliar territory (he told a Toronto journalist he would be sticking to novels in the future). Joshua is a case of what experts call genre envy...
...this desperation suggests a certain pathos, but little can match the pathetic, yet typically wry, desperation of Woody Allen's THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Harvard Square, Sunday). Superficially, Mia Farrow sees her movie idol step off the screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...
...plot of Maxie sounds stupid, and on the screen it is even stupider than it sounds...
...excellent but largely unrecognized performance is turned in by Jan and Nick's dog, who (and wouldn't you know it?) isn't listed in the credits. Since it is difficult to write dialogue for animals, and the screen-writers stopped just short of having animals talk, this dog's deadpan gaze earns perhaps the best laughs of the film...
DIED. Lloyd Nolan, 83, versatile actor of stage, screen and television, whose memorable roles ranged from the genial neighborhood policeman in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) to the psychotic Captain Queeg in a TV production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial for which he won an Emmy Award in 1956; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...