Cinema: Georgie Boy

Question: Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?

Answer: Harry Kellerman is the villain of a mystery-comedy. The questioner in the coy, interminable title of this film is Georgie Soloway (Dustin Hoffman). The mystery is why it should be called a comedy.

Hovering miserably around 40, Rock Composer Soloway has a score of gold platters, his picture on the cover of TIME, an airplane and a triplex atop Manhattan's General Motors building. But like something is missing. Truth, maybe. Or beauty. Whatever it is, girls start refusing...

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