Cinema: Pastrami and Tongue on Wry

BROADWAY DANNY ROSE Directed and Written by Woody Allen

To the honor roll of artists who worked in miniature—Vermeer, Webern, Fabergé, the medieval philosophers who squeezed a chorus line of angels onto the head of a pin—add Woody Allen's name. In an age when many film makers are enlarging timeworn genres like the gangster movie, the space opera and the weepie into Big Statements, Allen designs Mickey Mouse watches that run with 24-jeweled comic timing. But they don't run very long. Last year in Zelig he recapitulated the history of the documentary film and...

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