Word: segaller
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...professor Segal spent more than two weekends writing this modern fairytale, he worked slowly. He probably went to see George Roy Hill's A Little Romance and Robert Benton's Kramer vs. Kramer and decided America wanted more in the cuddly little boy and cute little girl department. With his track record...
...Woman and Child, Segal obeys all the rules of screenwriting. He writes in short, never-more-than-five-minute scenes in which visual images carry more weight than language. Typically, we hardly know what the characters look like so we won't be disappointed by the movie version...
...When words fail, comfortable cliches are always nice to fall back on," Sheila admits halfway through the book. Segal knows about comfortable cliches all too well. He struggles to add narrative to his script. His prose is not simple or spare--it is empty...
...Woman and Child lies not in its style but its story. Full of dramatic and meaningful scenes that (without giving away and surprises) add up to nothing, they fizzle like a summer squall over Cape Cod. As he proved in the hockey and snow sequences in Love Story, Segal has a sharp eye for powerful movie scenes. Bob & Sheila & Jessica & Paula & Jean-Claude peaks with Bob and Jean-Claude at Arthur Fiedler's fiftieth anniversary July Fourth concert. As they sit in a drenching downpur eating sandwiches, the Old Man throws the Pops into the 1812 Overature as fireworks explode...
...FORBID SEGAL should ever leave New England or invent characters who didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Radcliffe or Vassar. Or characters who didn't grow up to be professors or lawyers or gallery owners or editors. Or characters who couldn't afford to rent a house for a month at the Cape or eat at Harvest ("the new restaurant behind the Brattle Theater...