![]() ![]() A winsome romantic comedy that boasts glamorous locations (New York, Venice, and Paris) to match its ensemble cast (Hawn, Julia Roberts, Ed Norton, and Natalie Portman, to name just a few), Everyone made the most of its stars’ often pedestrian vocal skills while wringing comedy from the romantic travails of the extended family spinning around a divorced couple (Hawn and Allen). ![]() “What a deal.”Ī Woody Allen musical… starring actors not known for their singing voices? It could have been another misfire from Allen’s scattershot ‘90s filmography, but Everyone Says I Love You ended up going down as one of the director’s more satisfying - and surprising - critical triumphs. “Chevy when he was funny, Goldie when she was starting her heyday, and Dudley too,” wrote Widgett Walls. Toss in Dudley Moore, Billy Barty, and Burgess Meredith, and you’ve got yourself some serious talent in front of the camera if the results still ended up being somewhat less than the sum of their impressive parts, they were still entertaining enough for most critics. (Photo by Paramount courtesy Everett Collection)Ī veritable Who’s Who of ’70s comedy stardom, Foul Play unites Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase in a Hitchcock-with-laughs hybrid about a librarian who thinks she’s stumbled onto a plot to kill the Pope and her subsequent entanglement with a policeman who doesn’t take her claims seriously. ![]() “She has clearly established herself as the most delightful comedienne now working in movies, with her sparkle, her adorable indignation, and her ability to proffer false reassurance under any and every kind of circumstance.” “Miss Hawn is as sweetly zany as ever,” wrote Maslin. With its leads once again exploiting their comedic chemistry - abetted by Charles Grodin playing the straight man as Hawn’s second husband - Seems Like earned the duo another round of polite applause from critics like Janet Maslin of the New York Times, who singled Hawn out for particular praise in her review. Two years after scoring a hit with Foul Play, Hawn and Chevy Chase reunited for Seems Like Old Times, a Neil Simon story about a man who goes running to his ex-wife after he’s forced to rob a bank by some ruffians and ends up on the lam. (Photo by Columbia courtesy Everett Collection) ![]()
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