Dining-Drinking
June, 1971
The plot of A New Leaf is surprisingly old hat, considering its appeal to the fertile imagination of Elaine May. As adapter and director of her own scenario, in which she co-stars with Walter Matthau, Miss May seems smitten with nostalgia for those high-society Hollywood comedies that were all the rage back in the mid-Thirties. Her tale concerns a wastrel (Matthau) who squanders his fortune and sets out to find an heiress he can marry--and perhaps murder, if the occasion arises--in order to reta...
