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With most prophets who deal in unrelieved raillery, the tedium is the message. But Muggeridge is too canny an entertainer for that. In The Infernal Grove, the second volume of his autobiography, he writes with enough verve and instinct for artful exaggeration to keep a good novel spinning along. His pages are enlivened with provocations to conventional wisdom ("Innocence is often a quality of worldly success, as sophistication is of worldly failure" ... "News like sensuality is a passing excitement; perhaps the ultimate fantasy of all"). His characters-including a Who's Who of English politics, journalism and literature...
...Casablanca theme is not only hysterically funny, it's heart-rending as well. Both Allen and Diane Keaton give lovely performances here. This one is worth watching again and again. Where's Poppa? is usually pretty tasteless and it belabors an already overworn joke to the point of tedium. In all fairness, though, the movie has its moments. Complete shows start...
...recent Supreme Court decisions toughened local prosecution of pornography, and the FBI now has 90 full-time agents monitoring interstate shipments of film. The real trouble, however, is neither cops nor courts but boredom-the intrinsic tedium in the medium since hard-core hit the screen. "A hard-core film today is as strictly constructed as a medieval morality play," Friedman complains. "There are just so many positions you can film...
...this were a film about another assassination-say, a plot to kill the board chairman of a large corporation-the tedium of Miller's direction, the dry rot of Trumbo's writing, would quickly do it in. Instead, the movie is kept going by the baleful novelty of being about Kennedy. Whatever factual points the movie might have made are inextricably mixed up in trappings that would have seemed awkward even in a creaky TV series like Foreign Intrigue. The existence of a double for Oswald is not made even dramatically credible; yet the movie and the assassination...
...character is brought in to complicate the already frenetic interactions. Her Majesty's representative for mental health, Dr. Rance (Andrew Brooks) has been sent to evaluate Dr. Prentice and with the help of one more character, a policeman, succeeds only in complicating matters beyond the point of tedium...