Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Sully Brown seems to have cast with an eye to physical appearance. This effect works particularly well when Hannah and the ghost of the Murgatroyd she renounced (David Haughton) sing the tale of their love; the actors literally embody the subjects of their song--a "pretty little flower" and a "big oak tree." Overall, the cast is in fine singing and speaking voice, though the stilted dialogue overpowers Weary at times, and Monnen's Cockney accent seems to have a mind of its own, coming and going at will. But there's no need to carp. Acting...
...years now, and apparently he has come up with a workable--if not ideal--solution: turn your shortcomings into assets. To date, Allen has made half a dozen films in which short guys come out on top. By far the best of these is "Play It Again, Sam," the tale of a romantically successful Bogart fan. In Bogart, Allen has found the perfect role model for all the short, ordinary-looking people of the world; after all, for Bogie, life--and dames--are simple. This is one of the few Allen films that Allen himself did not direct, and what...
...level employee suggested that it was an eyesore and should be thrown out. But it was opened first-and lo, the much-sought-after evidence was inside. Justice Department officials find the FBI's story bizarre to the point of incredibility-one calls it a "fairy tale." The investigators believe that someone stashed the documents in the cabinet to hide them, that the "discovery" was actually a result of pressure from their probe and that whoever hid the documents apparently decided that they could no longer be safely withheld...
...World According to Garp is a long family novel, spanning four generations and two continents, crammed with incidents, characters, feelings and craft. The components of black comedy and melodrama, pathos and tragedy, mesh effortlessly in a tale that can also be read as a commentary on art and the imagination...
...fanatical Muslim group riding high on Arab oil and abetted by some of England's leading politicians. The conspiracy is defused by Bill Ellison, a brilliant Fleet Street digger whose investigative team resembles the London Sunday Times's muckraking groups. Salisbury gives his improbable tale crackling credibility-and is already working on a sequel...