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Lesson one for writers: write about what you know. Lesson two: don't be surprised if you would rather not have known what you wrote about. In 1966 Josh Greenfeld, novelist, playwright and screenwriter (Harry and Tonto), and his Japanese-born wife Foumi had their second child. They named the infant Noah. At the time, Greenfeld was attracting attention as a resolutely independent journalist, and a critic with a nose for new talent and a style that cut effortlessly through literary baloney. Foumi was cultivating her own career as a painter, and together the Greenfelds looked forward to lives...
...entered it. People were spread out all along the side of the run, and there was a normal level of noise, except all of us were sitting together, pretty drunk, screaming our heads off. Now, we used to call Joe 'The Ranger,' and Patterson was always 'Tonto.' So these people thought we were nuts, because we were yelling for the Ranger and Tonto...
...Carney and Tomlin elevate it. Carney may forever carry around like some prominent and embarassing tattoo his association with the hyper, dim-witted character of Ed in The Honeymooners. But here, like in Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto, he sheds that goofball image for a gritty grand-fatherliness. Tomlin is Tomlin, meanwhile: sensitive, talkative and--with all her blather about vibrations and kharmas--very, very funny. Yet what makes their two characters engaging and moving is the way they work together. If not a natural team, they both have become real pros and know how to make the audience...
...Harry & Tonto and Harold and Maude, Friday and Saturday...
...breakaway funny, Paul Mazursky's Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a comic reminiscence about salad days around Washington Square, the tough lessons and small victories that mark the end of growing up. What is best about Mazursky's work (Alex in Wonderland, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto) comes from his affectionate kind of satire, always clear-eyed and almost never derisive. Mazursky is a good spirit, and this is perhaps the most closely autobiographical of all his movies. Like Larry, he was a scuffling New York actor (he showed up as one of the leads in Fear...