Movies

February, 1979

Making big Broadway hits into major-league movies is a touchy business, and a couple of recent stage-to-screen adaptations reinforce my conviction that an easy-does-it approach usually works better than the superhype knock-'em-dead method of trying to outdazzle Broadway on every count. Compare director Robert Mulligan's amiable, witty and delightful movie version of Same Time Next Year with Sidney Lumet's awesome The Wiz. Five'll get you ten that The Wiz is going to draw bigger audiences, but I'...