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By David Baker
Film Critic
If I was to list my favorite
television series, the list
would be short, but "I Love
Lucy," "The Mary Tyler
Moore Show" and "Soap"
would be at the top. What
these three series have in
common, aside from being
brilliantly written and
performed, is Jay Sandrich.
He was an assistant director
on "Lucy" and he directed
more episodes of the Moore
show than anyone.
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left the air, Sandrich began
directing "Soap," but he quit
after the show's second
season in order to direct his
"What makes "
Times" the Comet
is the inept writings
first feature. "Seems Like
Old Times." Unfortunately,
if "Old Times" is the best
Sandrich can do with a
feature he'd best go back to
television. Perhaps stay in
television wouia dc me
better, for "Old Times" is
directed just like any
situation comedy.
One static shot follows
another static shot and, for
all the freedoms granted by
its feature-sized budget, ihe
movie is all too obviously stage-bound.
There are far
too many close-ups and far
too few laughs, as well, but
the latter problem can't be
pinned on Sandrich.
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Kahoutec of 1980 is the inept
writing of Neil Simon.
Simon ceased to be a
writer four years ago when
the grosses for his "The
Goodbye Girl" went through
the roof. Since that time,
he's become a script mill,
grinding out dialogue like it
was sausage. In the past few
years, he's managed to turn
out one touching sketch (the
one with Michael Caine and
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"California Suite," which
was written before "The
Goodbye Girl" was released,
and above-average
Broadway musical,
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' of Neil Simon. "
Song," which was turned
into an outstanding
Broadway musical through
the efforts of its stars,
Robert Klein and Lucie
Arnaz.
Evervthine elsp Simon has
churned out since 1977 has
been dreck, pure and simple,
and "Old Times," with the
exception of the execreble
"The Cheap Detective," is
the nadir of his fading
career.
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has been cracked before in
at least three of Simon's
other works and not one of
them is given a new lease on
life by the listiess cast
Sandrich has assembled.
The always adorable Goldie
Hawn and the sometimes
hilarious Chevy Chase are at
the mercy of Simon's pen
and instead of engaging him
in a jousting match by
creating something funny on
their own, both simply go
limp. It's hard to believe
these are the same people
who made "Foul Play" such
a delight. But then the
success of "Foul Play" is
probably the only reason
they were reunited. It certainly
wasn't the result of
any onscreen chemistry they
exhibit here.
CHEMISTRY, however is
the name of the game in
"Stir Crazy," the movie that
reunites another old team,
Gene Wilder and Richard
Pryor. The third "Silver
Streak" alumnus, Jill
Clayburgh, is sorely missed
here, but the movie serves
up quite a few laughs
nonetheless.
The oddest thing about
"Stir Crazy" is that Wilder
and Fry or each seem to be
playing the role intended for
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