Movies
February, 1982
Before seeing Ragtime (Paramount), one might have wondered whether a viable movie could be made from such a huge, sprawling hunk of Americana. E.L. Doctorow's best-selling novel covered everyone and everything from Houdini and racism to show business, love triangles and family life in old New York during the early part of the 20th Century. To invent an original screenplay of this complexity, crowded with overlapping characters and incidents, would be sheer madness. There's enough going on in Rag...
