Word: surroundding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evans, a Manhattan dentist's son, relishes the growing legends that surround his success. With his darkly handsome face and deep mellifluous voice-a blend of West Side New York with Bill Buckley vowel attenuation-drama is his element. The wonder is that his own acting career failed. In fitting Old Hollywood style, he was "discovered" by Norma Shearer by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Shearer decided that Evans was the man to play her late husband, MGM Producer Irving Thalberg, in the film Man of a Thousand Faces. Evans has since been compared to Thai-berg...
DETROIT LIKE most urban areas is a doughnut city. The white flight to the suburbs has produced metropolitan centers in which lily-white rings surround black cores. While the suburbs prosper, sucking off more and more of society's wealth, the inner city, predominantly black, is left to wallow in poverty. America is becoming, or has already become, what Disraeli termed "two nations," in our case one white and rich, the other black and poor, each unable to bridge the gap of polarization...
...Louvre, or (presumably) the Hermitage can be pachydermatously insensitive to the confused needs of their public. But when they move, they move with weight. They can deploy enormous diplomatic clout to get loans, bring together constellations of work that could never be assembled under one roof, and surround the whole with rigorous scholarship. "Masterpieces of Tapestry" is such an event...
...savvy comes from the city rat's instinct for survival. He knows that the witty things he says are idiotic and absurd, but he also knows that they are a defense mechanism. In 2173 he can roll sophisticated eyes at the lifestyle of the futuristic zombies that surround him, no matter how much they intimidate him. He's more cynical than they are, which becomes a heroic trait, a kind of defiance. Allen is fighting back in this picture, and it works--the audience follows right along...
...with the straights who surround him. Allen is always lost in a sea of normal people, and, like the best comic actors, makes them appear ridiculous by his very presence. He doesn't even have to try to do this here, because the absurd futuristic lifestyle doesn the work for him. Even the handsome musclebound machos are no threat. They seem doubly stupid, because Allen by definition is the only bright person in the movie...