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Stardust Memories is Woody Allen's 8½.Taking his cue from Federico Fellini's great comic fantasy, Allen has set his film in a resort hotel and cast himself as a film maker, very much like the Woody Allen we think we know, who finds himself in a creative culdesac. The film mixes memory and fantasy with the surreal-life present. Its visual style is a gloss on 8½'s: seductive black-and-white images, express-train pacing, a foregrounding of comic bit players. The three main women in 8½ (a mistress, a wife...
...that she's always feral. In fact, Harrison is as fundamentally chatty as Nora Ephron. In this collection she seems to be chatting over morning coffee with her best Greenwich Village friend. Her prose is wicked conversation, full of anecdotes, observations, comic asides, and devastatingly sensible reasoning. But the casual tone conceals a penetrating seriousness. Despite her glibness Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is always driving home a larger point...
...started taking the Unknown Comic act to different clubs around Los Angeles, which led to other jobs such as a character on The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show, aimed at the Saturday morning kiddies, and a syndicated variety/talk show called Everyday. Though he hasn't yet taken the bag off during his television appearances, he finds that in lengthier live performances he must. "The bag thing is really just one joke stretched out. After about 15 minutes it starts to get old," he says. "Plus I also start to suffocate...
...rises from the coffee shop table and starts to walk. "I'll tell you one thing that's really strange. I can go into a restaurant or sit down somewhere and over-hear people talking about the Unknown Comic. Once, I asked two girls what they thought of him and they said he was awful. Naturally I agreed. Another time people were talking about him and I introduced myself and said I was the Unknown Comic. They said, 'Sure buddy'. They didn't believe...
...would expect: he laughs them off. Comedy is his bag and the bag is his comedy and as his alter ego might put it, sack-cess is just around the corner. "Let's face it," he says, "right now people are coming to see the Unknown Comic and not Murray Langston, but that should change soon." Then, having given his prediction, Murray Langston walks up a flight of stairs, across the long hotel lobby and seems to disappear in the crowd...