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 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Information
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 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is an Academy Award winning 1974 film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner. It stars Ellen Burstyn, Alfred... 
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 The Washington Post Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
10/05/2000: 313 words, approx. 1 pages From deeply carved, thronelike chairs to delicate embroidered linens, 148 lots of household goods owned by turn-of-the-century Washington artist and heiress Alice Pike Barney are going on the block at Weschler's on Nov. 1. Barney's Embassy Row home served as a studio and... summary from source:
The Washington Post 'Wonderland': Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
08/11/2000: 598 words, approx. 2 pages THE FIRST thing to know about "Wonderland," a British doom-and- gloom soap-opera-cum-epic is that, well, it's no bloomin' wonderland. Not when the principal characters are drawn from irresponsible husbands, scheming pickup artists, misanthropic mothers, depressed young women, sullen young men, slutty chain smokers... summary from source:
 The New York Observer No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway\'d5s Mommie Returns
7/2/2006: 1,049 words, approx. 4 pagesWhen Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.”) As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway... summary from source:
The New York Observer No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway's Mommie Returns
7/2/2006: 1,050 words, approx. 4 pages When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, “How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?” (Wilder, who was present, replied, “I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.”) As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Review by William S. Pechter
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In the following excerpt, Pechter lauds Scorsese's manipulation of film genre conventions in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.
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Critical Essay by William Johnson
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My expectations of [Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More] were based mainly on Scorsese's previous feature, Mean Streets. Though "widely acclaimed," as the ads say, this left me cold. Oh yes, I admired the efficiency of its making. Dark, glinting interiors, edgy dialogue, strategic bursts of action, long takes with the camera immobile or slowly prowling like a hit man waiting to strike—sure, Scorsese knew what he wanted to put on the screen and how to get it there. You can see... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Stephen Farber
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More is a [slick] Hollywood comedy, taken from [an] artificial, highly structured script by Robert Getchell. However, since it was directed by Martin Scorsese, the talented dynamo who made Mean Streets, the film has a raw energy that shatters some of the script's contrivances…. Alice Graham is a survivor, a woman with an enterprising spirit and a resilient sense of humor. (p. 415) [But] Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More cannot be taken very seriously as...
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