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Taffeta Phantom. They are out of the familiar Rauschenberg image bank again, part random and part (one suspects) autobiographical: newspaper fragments, comic cutouts, a Cessna, a balloon, an octopus, buckets, a hand gripping a squeegee, an ostrich...
Died. Bob Montana, 54, cartoonist-creator of the comic strip Archie; of an apparent heart attack while cross-country skiing; near Meredith, N.H. Montana sketched Archie for more than three decades, peopling the strip in part with characters drawn from his New England high school acquaintances...
...Orient Express is a distinguished, if not a great, actor or actress. It's silly, but a lot of fun, to have an actress like Ingrid Bergman playing a Scandanavian nanny who "was born backwards" and has visions of "little brown babies" and talks like a night-club comic imitating Greta Garbo...
Aside from the comic spectacle of great actresses playing roles that are beneath their dignity but elevated to something more by the very fact that they are playing them, the most pleasurable thing about Murder is its surface. The flashback sequence at the beginning is pared to the bone; blue filters and slow motion make it into a ballet of form, a non-human prelude to a film that for the rest of its length is nothing but people talking at each other. Next Lumet shows us his cast assembling from all over the world to board the Orient Express...
Like many other successful comics, he does not like to be taken lightly. When critics panned his first movie, The Producers, Brooks claimed "bleeding wounds for two years." Today he insists that he, more than Woody Allen, is the funnyman's intellectual. "I don't want to make just another movie," he says. "I want to make trouble. I want to say in comic terms, 'J'accuse. 'We dealt with bigotry in Saddles and with neo-Fascism in Producers. Underneath the comedy in Frankenstein, the doctor is undertaking the quest to defeat death-to challenge...