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...Jews in a seedy part of Venice. The play attempts to examine not only what it means to be Jewish in America, but what it means to be old. It is an ambitious undertaking, clearly too large for Playwright Suzanne Grossmann, whose script is lachrymose and, in the end, static. Still, the production itself is impeccable, and the cast proves again that one thing Los Angeles is not lacking is superb actors...
Eliminating the current free-choice policy will not make the Houses indistinguishable; differences in location, facilities, personnel and the individuals living there at any given time will lend each a unique but not static personality. At the same time, diversity within the Houses will afford some hope of increased contact among groups that all too often insultate themselves. It is that type of diversity--that which encourages intergroup mingling and not separatism--that the College should encourage...
Weakened and distorted by the warps of time, crackling with static interference, the famous voice from the past gloats over the possibilities: "Now you'd be amazed at how this story about the gal is spreading around the country . . . Awful nice gal, writes for the magazines and so forth...
Gance's focus, on the other hand, fixes the flow of history in a series of static images that capture in them all the horror and irony of the French Revolution. While The Terror creates a murderous chaos in the streets, Gance turns suddenly to an enclosed office: the nerve center of the Committee of Public Safety. A high wall is divided into four sections: Accused, Acquitted, Guilty, Innocent. Accused and Guilty overflow with dossiers; Acquitted and Innocent stand nearly empty. An officer enters, announcing to the pie-eyed overseer, "I must have three hundred today. Draw up the lists...
Louis Malle, who has a deserved reputation for taking on dangerous projects (Pretty Baby, Murmur of the Heart), was obviously attracted to the challenge of doing what amounts to an antimovie, static and minimalist. He has functioned, it seems, pretty much in the manner of a good TV technician handling a Sunday-morning inter view show. His work is smooth, objective, unobtrusive. His manner certainly suits a script that was distilled from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between its author-protagonists...