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...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 Manhatten aesthetes and intellectuals who religiously study The New Yorker...
There is now a bar in place of the famed Round Table where Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other wits from The New Yorker used to dine and quip during the '20s. But that seemed to suit the crowd just fine at last week's 75th birthday party for the Algonquin Hotel. The clubby bastion of New York literati was the site of a noisy celebration for 200 guests including Humorist S.J. Perelman, Actors Kevin McCarthy and Maureen Stapleton and Cartoonist Charles Addams. "You better feel witty before you enter the place; if not, just listen," cautioned Author...
DIED. Geoffrey T. Hellman, 70, prolific New Yorker staff writer for close to half a century; of cancer; in Manhattan. Hellman's contributions to "Talk of the Town," his acerbic profiles of such legendary characters as Alfred Knopf, and his portraits of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History ("Bankers, Bones, and Beetles") are masterpieces of New Yorker prose...
...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...
...native New Yorker, Safire dropped out of Syracuse University to become a researcher for Columnist Tex McCrary, joined McCrary's public relations firm, and later struck out on his own. As press agent for a "typical American house" at a Moscow exhibition in 1959, he lured Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev into their now famous "kitchen debate...