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...illusion after illusion is stripped away during the party. Crowley manages to destroy virtually all popular conceptions of the homosexual personality and existence. If we cannot entirely identify with the film's world of boundless sorrow and lacerating wit, we cannot turn our backs either. As one character says to Alan. "It's like watching an accident on the highway. You can't look at it and you can't look away...
...ball occasionally ends up in my mouth, 65% of the fans who have watched this maneuver approve of it." Another Udall tactic was "the Haynsworth-Carswell shuffle-sending in a series of second and third stringers, one after another, until one of them scores." Neither Udall's wit nor his jump shot-he was a basketball star at the University of Arizona-could stop the Republicans. Thanks largely to California Congressman Bob Mathias, former Olympic decathlon champ, the G.O.P. took the 24-minute exhibition...
...fitting epitaph might be that example of dry British wit with which Russell closed his last American TV appearance: "Don't ever be absolutely sure of anything-not even if I tell...
...Anthony Sloan, a pseudonym adopted by the Roundabout's artistic director, Gene Feist, has not tampered with the basic myth. Oedipus has murdered his father, married his mother, sired an incestuous brood, and his eyes are gouged out. What Sloan has done, albeit with lesser aesthetic power and wit, is what Anouilh and Giraudoux have done with the Greek myths...
Filming a familiar tale that appears to be heavily autobiographical, Writer-Director Paul Williams, 25, pays the requisite homage to Truffaut and Welles, not to mention The Graduate and Goodbye, Columbus. The warmth and wit, however, are completely his own. He roots the action firmly in time and place ("Long Island, 1960"), and from the vantage point of a new decade it seems a long and innocent time away. But Williams makes the frustrations of young love agonizingly familiar, the ache of awakening sexuality vivid and true. For pure eroticism, a scene in a beach shower between Paul and Christine...