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"Blume In Love": Ah, those wacky 70's......

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I remember seeing this in '73 when it was released. If you have forgotten the 70's this is a perfect refresher. George Segal sports a tremendously bushy head of hair and drives a BMW 1600 while his (ex)wife, Susan Anspach has the appropriate hair and drives a Super Beetle convertible. Enter George's infidelity with this black secretary and we now have an angry wife filled with scorn with divorce on her agenda.
After the divorce she takes up with a newly minted Kris Kristofferson who is a Tennessee hippy fresh on the San Francisco scene. Oh yes, he drives a beat up VW bus. (Are we nostalgic yet?) Segal starts having a loveless affair with Marsha Mason yet never shakes his love for Anspach. Segal narrates his love and frustrations from the beauty of St Mark's Square throughout the movie while doing whatever possible to get back in favor of Anspach.
This film grandly illustrates the 70's with it's free love, swinging couples, hippies talking crazy, faux hippness, and the uncomfortable mixing of hippies and suits.
This wasn't a particularly good movie but serves mostly as a "how things used to be" document.
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"I'm going to go pack for France."

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...Ah, those wacky 70's...... - afilado 10:26:11 03/26/07 (2)
I'm a George Segal fan. I never pass up a chance to tout Where's Poppa? I rewatched it recently, and though it is dated in that '70's way you well describe, I still fall in the floor laughing,
George Segal, Manhattanite, suffers a deadend job and lovelife largely because of his promise to keep his widowed, scatterbrained/delusional mother (Ruth Gordon) out of a nursing home. His married brother (Ron Leibman) is reluctant to help because he sees mom in a different, less helpless light.
When sexy Trish Van Devere comes into the picture for Segal, promises and self-control begin to crumble. Ron Liebman's encounters with a gorilla suit and Central Park muggers is hilarious, in a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World kind of way.
Also features the versatile and underrated Vincent Gardenia. Directed by Carl Reiner.
- Those 70's movies were some of my faves...... - mr grits 21:16:17 03/26/07 (1)
  Segal and Gould made quite a few during those times. The only time I could stomach Bwabwa was with Segal in "The Owl and the Pussycat". Not that was funny for it's time. Bwabwa made a great hooker.
  To me Segal is Woody Allen on steroids.
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  "I'm going to go pack for France."
  - I'm sure you know Bwabwa was married - tinear 04:55:54 03/27/07 (0)
    to Gould, or Mr. Streisand as he derisively was referred to by some columnists. Couldn't have helped the fragile marriage...
Can "I love you Alice B. Toklas" be far behind? - ArdRi 21:45:28 03/25/07 (0)

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