Boris and Natasha
The breakthrough is Robert Altman’s Popeye, from
which this profits greatly. In a congenial environment, all you have to do is
put Sally Kellerman and Dave Thomas in front of the camera to see things happen,
and Smith provides one.
The transposition is a far extrapolation from the cartoon that
hits the high note and lets it reverberate. The secret lair of the baddies is
up a nose on Mt. Rushmore, Natasha learns mall fashion, Anthony Newley plays
Sal Manelli in a scene adapted from The Conversation, and it goes like
that, a long drink of water and a short Kodiak bear wearing the “hokey
outfits Americans love.”
Fifty/Fifty
A very humoristic venture into covert operations with a tenuous link
to the company store, primarily characterized by its irony and sense of
detachment in relation to The Man Who Would Be King.