Cinema: NEW MOVIES

Smashing Time

Sad but true: Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave are not female reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. At first blush it must have looked like a great idea—Lynn is a great big broth of a girl whose eye-batting optimism thinly masks a steely and ruthless ineptitude; Rita, with the wispy, downtrodden look of a disgruntled rodent, is obviously born to be picked on. Moreover, the girls did awfully well together in the comic moments of 1964's The Girl with Green Eyes.

They still complement each other neatly, but the interplay between them...

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