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...York Jew and a flaky midwestern WASP marks a generally successful departure in thematic approach; "Annie Hall" hoes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhattan aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New. Yorker...
...Jersey, in the small enclave of black laborers and domestics that centered largely around his father's church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. "In a way I was 'adopted' by all these good people," Robeson remembers, "...There was the honest joy of laughter in these homes, folk-wit and story, hearty appetites for life as for the nourishing greens and black-eyed peas and cornmeal bread they shared with...
...Wilbur Theater, Edward Gorey '50, a writer/illustrator noted for his macabre wit, and Dennis Rosa, an Obie award winning director, have resurrected "Dracula," a 1927 play by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston. It is no occasion for hallelujahs, though. Dracula should be great on stage, with immediate, uncelluloid flesh and blood primed for the mauling. But the evening at the Wilbur is anemic...
ANDY WARHOL, the publisher, conducts two interviews and interjects his wit and wisdom into a third. His questions give the same kind of impression as Guiness's--that the interviewer is thinking "Isn't it exciting talking to these Frightfully Important People!" And Warhol is even more irritating. In the Duvall interview, the reader hears from Warhol that he "was supposed to go to the pimple doctor this morning" but "never went...
...York Jew and a flaky midwestern WASP marks a generally successful departure in thematic approach: Annie Hall goes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhattan aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New Yorker...