Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Short Takes has installed 20 booths so far in New York City and Minnesota, and plans to distribute 1,000 more around the U.S. during the next year or so. Coming later this summer: Baby Takes. Proud parents in maternity wards at three Minneapolis hospitals will soon be able to introduce the newest ham in the family. Come on, kid, wave...
...machines are parading by -- the Indiana Joneses and Star Treks and Ghostbusters -- wearing roman numerals like kill counts on their armor plate. In a steamroller summer, what's a low-budget comedy to do? Strut as brightly and bawdily as possible. Anyway, that is the tactic of the new film from Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul), which intrudes on the monster-movie scene like a kid blowing a May Day raspberry in Red Square...
...crossing of class and sexual borders is the rule in similar high comedies: Noel Coward's Hay Fever, Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game, Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. But those were about flirtation; director Bartel (who also plays Clare's snooty diet doctor) wants to talk about performance. Though set in the right now, Scenes is really a nostalgia piece from the swinging '70s, when coupling could be a game without emotional consequence or physical risk...
...touching echo of Saroyan's affirmative The Time of Your Life. But Roberta Levitow, normally a talented director, gave every scene the same pace and texture and allowed the frequent scene changes to dissipate energy and tension. Fortunately for Meyer, a staging under different direction is planned for this summer at Los Angeles Theater Center...
...execution. The Wylie-Rushdie pairing is apt: if only one of them is an agent, both are provocateurs. At a time when many agents have turned mercenary, Wylie tops them all in aggressiveness and acerbity. Says he: "This little East Hampton approach to publishing, where publishers and agents share summer houses so that they can get together and shaft the writers, has gone by the board -- I'd like to think partially as a result of our efforts...