Cinema: Portrait of the Artisan

Alex is a young and abruptly successful film director whose somewhat desultory wanderings through his subconscious and Hollywood form the core of Alex in Wonderland, a movie that appears to be a looking-glass portrait of its director, Paul Mazursky. Like his protagonist, Mazursky achieved rapid success recently with Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and, like Alex again, he was alternately baffled, delighted and finally stymied by his success. Unlike Alex, however, Mazursky found a way out of his creative quandary: he and Co-Author Larry Tucker simply fictionalized and embellished...

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