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...Pierre Roy, a Do It Yourself veteran, infuses a rich pathos into two laments about the hollowness of show business life, "What's Next" and "Watch the Birdie." "A Few Years," one of Barclay's most majestic numbers, begins as a take-off on blind American optimism; through the sincerity of Rod Skinner's rendition, however, it becomes a moving affirmation of the need to go on believing in America's future, despite the scars of "bigotry, of pride...
Sandwiched between his softspoken rebuttal of Democratic backbiting at the Cradle of Liberty and his late afternoon take-off from Logan was a handshaking blitz at the Cradle of Monopoly--the Parker Brothers' games factory in Salem...
...return for assurances of continued SAC support, the committee demanded a detailed accounting of why the Review's expected "take-off" into the national market fizzled. 1975-76 became a time for re-evaluation of the Review by its editors, with some startling conclusions. Incoming Review president George H. White '77 calls Mendelson's and Bliss's conceptions of what it would take to break into the national market "idealistic and unrealistic." "They talked to people over at the Harvard Business Review, and not to other political journals," says White...
...must be a male camaraderie movie!" Male camaraderie was very big last summer, and suddenly Altman was playing the Newman-Redford. Woodward-Bernstein game. Depending on what: they thought of the picture, the critics had California Split down as a good army-buddies film, or a poor take-off on The Sting...
Gene Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay, plays the wild-eyed, wild-haired grandson of the Baron von Frankenstein in a brilliant, highly personal take-off on the familiar character of the mad genius. He begins the movie as an American neurosurgeon frantically embarrassed by his ancestor's antiscientific shenanigans. Forced to journey to Transylvania to receive the Baron's will, he discovers the ancient laboratory and is seduced by his grandfather's dreams--providing the set-up for a spoof of every major scene in the original film, interrupted by the tangents of Brooks's imagination and concluded...