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...more and more like a Harvard House.) Enter a pint-sized pixie of bountiful energy and non-stop chatter. She is never given a name, though she becomes the play's main character: her anonymity seems intended to make her a sort of Everywoman. The character blends saint and sinner both with startling speed, making for a difficult role. Jennifer Raiser does not pull it off. In her earnest enthusiasm, she tramples many of her own lines as well as those of other cast-members. Her incessant whine grows tiresome as we see her change from an apparently naive waif...
...example, while most of the drivers complained of a lack of input into the schedule-making process, James A. Sinner '81, the shuttle captain and a representative to the subcommittee of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life that drew up the new schedule, acknowledged Wednesday that he did not seek enough comment from his fellow workers...
...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. But how long can he play second banana...
This film is running for one week in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for Academy nominations. It is the sort of ponderously aspiring twaddle that sometimes wins Oscars-especially when it presents Hollywood a chance to welcome back a suitably repentant sinner. But the once cheerfully perverse director of Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ought to remember that being an artist means never having to say you're sorry...
Dallas drew the largest U.S. television audience in history; members of an estimated 40 million households were riveted to their sets to find out which sinner did the dastardly deed to J.R. But the show also turned off an increasingly militant minority of viewers: in the past nine months half a million Christians have pledged themselves to boycott the products of sponsors of television programs like Dallas that "depict scenes of adultery, sexual perversion or incest, or which treat immorality in a joking or otherwise favorable light...