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...show, directed by a trio of experts (Konrad Oberhuber, Jay Levenson and Jacquelyn Sheehan), brings together some 200 examples, ranging from masterpieces like Andrea Mantegna's Entombment of Christ to a cheery bit of erotica (involving a girl who bears a startling resemblance to Alice in Wonderland) by an anonymous North Italian artist of the late 15th century. This is the kind of thing major museums ought to be about, when they are not distracted by show biz and self-puffery. One sees the print discovering its own nature and destiny as copper engraving changed from popular illustration...
...originally. Bambi, considered a failure when it grossed only $1.5 million in 1943, has vindicated Disney's vision by drawing an impressive $15.5 million to date. Cinderella, presently in rerelease, has grossed $17.5 million in four circuits. A few years ago, one Disney employee confessed that Alice in Wonderland had never been re-released because latter-day misinterpretations might tarnish the Disney image; the Caterpillar, for instance, loftily puffing on his hookah, now looks suspiciously-well, stoned...
...rabbit" is a mechanical replica of a rabbit which runs on a track on the rail. The rabbit is used to start a race between greyhounds, a race which happens ten times nightly at Wonderland in Revere; a race that sends hundreds of people home mumbling that the "rabbit" had been slowed down of sped up; a race that brings thousands of people off their seats yelling at the top of their lungs for a dog that runs as fast as their bigger counterparts--the horses...
...racing has captured the hearts of Boston gamblers. Every night at Wonderland, the dogs bring working class people, rich people, young people and old people to the track. They pore over the racing program, comparing times, how the dog "likes his position" (i.e. what lane the dog starts in), and carefully watching the huge scoreboard to keep up with the wildly fluctuating odds...
...kind of comedy that pierces. Blume's often quite mad struggle to wriggle back into wedded bliss is an ideal occasion for Mazursky to comment once again (as he did in Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and in the more ambitious and more interesting Alex in Wonderland) on the folkways of contemporary romance, where an innocent conversation can turn abruptly into a sexual scrimmage, and a tryst into trench warfare. He excels at putting down the trappings and pretensions of the middle-class life of Los Angeles with tart asides on stylish psychiatrists discussing the notion...