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...invented the unwilling cocktail party crashing moose (And the moose mingled...) and redubbed a serious Japanese spy movie into an outrageous parody of itself knows he can make people laugh, but he wants to do more. There weren't many laughs in Interiors, and those in his most recent Stardust Memories made us uncomfortable, we couldn't relate to them...
...sting of a killer bee. The 17-year-old son Paul (Brian Backer) has a sky-high IQ and plays truant to go to magic shows. Abysmally lonely, he retreats to his room to polish his own legerdemain, as Allen's boy figure did in the film Stardust Memories. Running into a flyweight booking agent (Jack Weston), Enid wheedles him into auditioning Paul. Terrified, the boy flubs a few tricks and becomes ill. In a total tangent, Enid and the agent embark on a bittersweet mating waltz that ends sourly...
...prompted questions of resonance. Whence came the ravaged joys of marriage? How may one survive the illusions of youth and the disenchantments of middle age? Did the dance of life do for me what I did for love? And how may one dance under the pin drift of mechanical Stardust without the pipedream of romance...
...executive of Cimino. "This is a tough town." Things may be tough for the U.A. brass too. The company has not had a single solid hit this year to erase the red ink from such bombs as Carny, Roadie and Those Lips, Those Eyes. Woody Allen's Stardust Memories, which cost $20 million, is a major box office disappointment. The studio's Christmas films were to have been Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (which opened two weeks ago to strong critical and popular response) and Heaven 's Gate. Cimino and Steven Bach, U.A.'s production...
...doubt about it: Stardust Memories is a must-see. But that doesn't mean you have to like it. As far as I'm concerned, it's a dazzling display by a master filmmaker that wears out its welcome long before the final credits...