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...defending himself publicly, or infuriating for others who saw him as a creep who had gone too far. The spectacle of his life's woes on network news took away his carte blanche to detail them in 35mm film. By turning to a style whose emphasis is on the comic, rather than emphasizing something through the comic, Allen succeeds, at times, in making us forget about his life and simply laugh at his jokes...
...Lightly comic and pleasantly distracting as it is, however, "Bullets Over Broadway" cannot escape the mark of Allen's touch. If his philosophical bent is subdued, his style is not: Cusack bumbles about for much of the picture looking as if he is the slightly stilted son of Fielding Mellish. And, like "Manhattan Murder Mystery," "Bullets Over Broadway" ultimately can't help submitting to Allen's hopeful vision that love can work, that love should work. This vision, of course, must be Woody Allen's; it must be Woody Allen's plea...
Actually, that is a good description of the adrenaline-pumped two-hour premiere episode. Since then, ER has settled back into more conventional storytelling, with predictable character developments, comic interludes and some unwelcome sentimentality. On last week's episode, surgeon Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) brought his young daughter to the hospital, and her wise- child observations were enough to induce diabetic shock. (Talking to a little girl whom her father has just treated: "My daddy's your doctor." "(Will) he help make me better?" "That's what doctors do.") Still, the show has retained its grungy immediacy, without the hand...
...Bull Run and Chancellorsville, and survived. Some of the best passages in Family occur when Frazier follows, in a rented car, the marches undertaken by the 55th and tries to take himself back in time. Usually he succeeds, and when he fails he still shows his familiar flair for comic relief: "I figured that my suitcase, briefcase and golf clubs probably weighed about the same as the full kit and rifle carried by a private in the 55th. I considered parking the car and trying some of this march myself, fully loaded, just to get an idea what...
...begat Buster Keaton, who did physical comedy better than anyone ever did, with the exception of Harold Lloyd, and whose works are still fine (see "The General," "The Navigator" and "700 Brides"). And Sennett also begat Chaplin, who learned from him but went well beyond to become the finest comic artist ever, the Little Tramp who mixed laughter and tears. And Chaplin created "City Lights" and "The Gold Rush" and "The Great Dictator" and "Modern Times" and they were very good indeed, taking silent film to a new dimension and adding sound judiciously and creatively...