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Show hurber makes love Alfred Frenzies Bv JIM WALDO Chronicle Staff Tu War between Men and 1 m is a picture which I Jed with great caution. I confirmed Thurber freak. I jer the man the only person ;.eru up against who had a ; wtive fantasy life than I '.' As such, he is a name to t-mth. and in my opinion, animation uses Thurber-style cartoons, and uses them well The drawings are well integrated with the live parts of the movie. The editing is shown best in the flashes from the real world to Lemmon's fantasy world. Those of you who were fans of "My World and Welcome to If are aware of the effect this can have All in all, the movie is weli worth seeing. If you are a Thurber fan and expect to see a faithful rendition of Thurber stay home and read one of his books. However, if you like the ' Thurber sort of world, this movie will be well worth your time to go see. of the few geniuses to write .. titan humor. k j is understandable that I jj approach a movie "based" fc character with some (n This was especially the '!,hen it is considered that aning before I had watched -.j FBI Story" on the late it movie and read at the end 'it too was "based" on an uI character. teh to my delight, however, jjdthat "The War between ' - and Women" was a fan-1 fan-1 .juovie. It was not a marvel -lecting. The acting, prin- Jl by Jack Lemmon, Bar-Harris Bar-Harris and Jason Robards, . predictably good. The jatography was not spec-vec spec-vec i What made the movie a rter ,j movie was that it was day j. are .j just slightly funny. Not )ere .-good or a few chuckles now i of ;i(n. Really funny. Out and rhe slighter by the audience. My :icl muscles were sore when ons m out of the theater. s plot is simple. Jack ere -m, playing a cartoonist 'kf hates dogs, children and Ses alvery likely in that order) Era' -i Barbara Harris while es' 3 out of his optomitrist. It fen -j that he is going blind, but ical .: doesn't affect Barbara. She -liter him, and, sure enough, u" end up getting married. ern : the wedding, however, ra Harris's ex-husband up, a nice virile ' a :?rapher back from the ' -i Complications arise when it -3 that both Robards and m "s forget that they are no 3 married. They have the 1 irlack of tact and subtle 'mhe face humor. m -l the plot really doesn't lto " The lines that do matter M J go along with almost any (w ' plot which involved two ous and a female. And the lines 'ej. stic. tia! ihkily two best Jfs f the film are the he " and the editing. The |