Janet Maslin wrote:
Gilda Radner: A Revue of Repertory

Nothing in “Gilda Live” is funnier than, or a substantial departure from, the material Gilda Radner does on “Saturday Night Live.” But the film ought to satisfy her fans. As directed by Mike Nichols, this is a straightforward record of Miss Radner’s Broadway show at the Winter Garden last year, a show that had its decided ups and downs. The best of her material presents Miss Radner as an agile, versatile comedian, but the lesser skits tend to ramble.

Miss Radner is not the sole star of “Gilda Live,” which opens today at the Sutton and other theaters. She appears as a number of characters, in a show that gives equal weight to these various skits and does little to tie them together. So Don Novello, who puts in a series of appearances as Father Guido Sarducci, upstages Miss Radner regularly, if only because of his character’s continuity.

Mr. Novello is seen explaining about a “Kennedy-Lincoln Coincidenza” in Italian (both their names have seven letters), and proposing his scheme for a “five-minute university” — during a five-minute session, the student is taught everything the average college graduate remembers after five years. The Religion course goes this way: “Where is God? God is everywhere. Why? Because He likes you.” Mr. Novello describes this as a combination of Roman Catholic theology and Walt Disney.

Miss Radner’s best shot here is her appearance as Rhonda Weiss, of Rhonda and the Rhondettes, singing a protest song about the banning of saccharine. The Rhondettes wear sunglasses and carry little shoulderbags, waving their hands in a gesture that suggests their nails aren’t dry. Meanwhile, Rhonda explains “up until now, I never felt the need to protest. I mean, nothing in the 60’s really bothered me.” Then she read the saccharine story in The National Enquirer: “I nearly died.”

This routine, performed with the three female singers of the group Desmond Child and Rouge, is something Miss Radner has tried on television, and in fact most of the show has a familiar ring. What it doesn’t have is an eventful feeling, a sense that Miss Radner is really taking a chance. Her closing song, something sentimental about innocent romance, offers the evening’s only step out of character — and it’s a step backwards, since it ends an otherwise amusing program on a note of false intimacy. Nothing else about the material, a 90-minute run through of Miss Radner’s repertory, suggests she’s interested in doing more than playing it safe.

GILDA LIVE, directed by Mike Nichols; written by Anne Beatts, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Don Novello, Michael O’Donoghue, Gilda Radner, Paul Shaffer, Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel; directors of photography, Ted Churchill, James Contner, Alan Metzger, Peter Norman; music by Paul Shaffer, Michael O’Donoghue, Cheryl Hardwick, Marvin Hamilsch, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb; produced by Lorne Michaels; released by Warner Brothers. At the Sutton, Third Avenue and 57th Street; Criterion Center, Broadway at 45th Street; 86th Street Twin I, at Lexington Avenue. Running time: 95 minutes. This film is rated R

WITH:
Gilda Radner and
Father Guido Sarducci, Don Kirshner, Arnie Schnactman, Student Body President . . . . . Paul Shaffer
Audition Scene Planist . . . . . Bob Christianson
Roadie . . . . . Nils Nichols
Cardinal Dario Fungi . . . . . Himself
The Candy Slice Group
John Caruso, Paul Shaffer, Howard Shore and G. E. Smith

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Publisher Will Randall becomes a demon wolf and has to fight to keep his job.

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The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives. Their story begins in the late 1940s when they are roommates attending Amherst College together. Both virgins, they discuss the type of woman they would each like to end up with. Sandy, the more sensitive of the two, meets Susan at a mixer, she who he believes is going to be the one to who he will lose his virginity. Sandy goes through the process methodically, taking into account what he thinks Susan wants, but without much true passion or romance. Jonathan, the more sexually aggressive of the two, ends up losing his virginity first to “Myrtle”, who ends up being a steady but hidden girlfriend. Based on what each knows of the other’s relationship, both Jonathan and Sandy strive for a little more of what the other has. These relationships also set…

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A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a “military mentality”, and of a bureaucratic society in general.

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George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This verbal abuse is fueled by an excessive consumption of alcohol. George being an associate History professor in a New Carthage university where Martha’s father is the President adds an extra dimension to their relationship. Late one Saturday evening after a faculty mixer, Martha invites Nick and Honey, an ambitious young Biology professor new to the university and his mousy wife, over for a nightcap. As the evening progresses, Nick and Honey, plied with more alcohol, get caught up in George and Martha’s games of needing to hurt each other and everyone around them. The ultimate abuse comes in the form of talk of George and Martha’s unseen sixteen year old son, whose birthday is the following day.

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Based on the Margaret Edson play, Vivian Bearing is a literal, hardnosed English professor who has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. During the story, she reflects on her reactions to the cycle the cancer takes, the treatments, and significant events in her life. The people that watch over her are Jason Posner, who only finds faith in being a doctor; Susie Monahan, a nurse with a human side that is the only one in the hospital that cares for Vivian’s condition; and Dr. Kelekian, the head doctor who just wants results no matter what they are.

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