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...bullet wounds during the first 24 years of his life, battling such miserable miscreants as Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, Mumbles, the Brow, B-B Eyes and 88 Keyes (the larcenous pianist). But the villains never got the best of Dick Tracy, the hatchet-jawed, hawk-nosed dean of comic-strip detectives. Last week, Tracy, his snap-brim hat and two-way radio intact, celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later...
...directoring debut, David Steinberg avoids all the gimmicky devices a first-timer often employs and adds his own special stand-up-comic touch to many of the funny scenes. However, his successes on the comedy side barely compensate for his failure to turn the romantic spark between Reynolds and the new first lady Beverly D'Angelo into a flame. Even in comedy, the director at times stretches for just a little bit too much, for that extra, meaningless laugh...
Charlie Peters' screenplay is to be admired for its creativity, yet at the same time scrutinized; for the script's inability to avoid the obvious is perhaps the movie's greatest fault--predictability. Also it often seems that Peters' funniest work lies outside the film's mainstream, almost like comic sidebars...
...many others like them, shed radiance on Rabbit and his surroundings, the very glow of transcendence that this overweight car salesman still, stubbornly, thinks of as his birthright. He does not always see it, but Updike's readers are granted this vision and something more: a superlative comic novel that is also an American romance. -By Paul Gray -While he was writing Rabbit, Run, more than 20 years ago, John Updike discovered that "I enjoyed being inside this guy's skin." The feeling revived a decade later, when he began Rabbit Redux: "It all seemed to be there...
...Harvard undergraduate singers have come to know and--well, sometimes, at least--love. The Bernie Krieger they know is not so much the talented pianist or the gifted sightreader as he is the subject of a sort of "fable of ridicule." Krieger is the central character in dozens of comic stories of bumbling and outrageous behavior. "Sure," says a recent Glee Club graduate, "I know lots of Bernie stories. But are you really sure you want to print them...