Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both films suffer from scriptwriters' inability to go beyond a simple extrapolation of the hippie into already familiar contexts: Alice B. Toklas might just as well be called Nichols and May Meet The Flower Children, its frame of reference entirely consisting of semi-improvised Jewish comedy prevalent in Neil Simon and lesser Feiffer. Runaways is structurally a simplistic morality play juggling black-and-white moral quantities with the vengeance of a true confessions magazine...
Sharing the stage with Hammond is a quiet guitar-strumming singer, Matt Alexander. His songs are mainly his own, with a heavy Paul Simon influence seeping through. Blending his thoughts on Cambridge mornings with warnings about love, Alexander's compositions are pleasant enough, if not terribly memorable...
...REALLY DRAGGED BUT NOTHING GETS ME DOWN by Nat Hentoff. 127 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...social critic, is one of the most visible freelance writers in circulation. In this slight assignment he overcomes his modest talents for fiction with competence, concern and sympathy. But to what worthwhile end? Surely today's "young adults" do not need such pallid dramatizations of their problems when Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles do it so much better...
...Simon's favor, it should be said that (a) The Apartment is by no means a natural for the world of musical comedy; (b) His book is a good deal more entertaining than the average; (c) It will undoubtedly get a fairer shake from those who have not seen the movie; and (d) There is still time. The weeks remaining can probably best be used to replace Mr. Winter, who is mis-cast, and to cut or change a good deal of gratuitously cute dialogue (another example: "Hell hath no fury like a man who's lost his Wednesday nights...