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...film does gently remind us of past pleasures, now missed, and it is rather handsomely produced. Maybe, since its creators lack a true-that is to say Mel Brooksian-gift for parody, they would have done better to play the whole thing straight and let us have our nostalgia unalloyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mixed Double | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...After watching CBS's Alice, he noted that Alice's high standard of living is not consistent with her job as a waitress in a small restaurant. In Eric's class, Economics Teacher Rudy Johnson asks, "How much job security does a small restaurant owner like Mel (Alice's Boss) have?"And a student responds,"Not much, because small places like that go broke a lot." Smoothly, Johnson moves the discussion to the subject of extra risks that face small businesses throughout the business cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning to Live with TV | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

American Song Program--Sarah Vaughan. Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan and others; Symphony Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 15-March 21 (film listings on page four) | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...movie. I think people came down too hard on it after Pauline Kael wrote that ridiculous rave--the one that got plastered over all the ads. Philip Kaufman has a witty visual style, but the ending was a bummer. People in San Francisco are getting a little too mellow.... mel, if you will. Everyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...Mel Mandel and Norman Sachs

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Geriantics | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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