who be these they the actor . the filmmaker . certainly couldn not be the audience this be among the most air puffed production in existence . it the kind of movie that look like it be a lot of fun to shoot too much fun and nobody be get any actual work do and and that almost always make for a movie that no fun to watch . ritter don glass so a to hammer home his character status a a sort of doppleganger of the bespectacled bogdanovich while the scene with the breezy ms. stratten be sweet and but have an embarrassing and look guy i be date the prom queen feel to them . ben gazzara sport his usual cat get canary grin in a futile attempt to elevate the meager plot and which require him to pursue audrey hepburn with all the interest of a narcoleptic at an insomnia clinic . in the meantime and the budding couple respective child ( nepotism alert represent bogdanovich daughter ) spew cute and pick up some fairly disturbing pointer on love while observe their parent . ( ms. hepburn and draw on her dignity and manages to rise above the proceeding but she have the monumental challenge of play herself and ostensibly . ) everybody look great and but so what . it a movie and we can expect that much and if that what youre look for you would be good off pick up a copy of vogue . oh and it have to be mention that colleen camp thoroughly annoy and even apart from her singing and which and while competent and be wholly unconvincing . the country and western number be woefully mismatch with the standard on the soundtrack . surely this be not what gershwin ( who write the song from which the movie title be derive ) have in mind while his stage musical of the 20 may have be slight and but at least they be long on charm . they all laugh try to coast on it good intention and but nobody least of all peter bogdanovich have the good sense to put on the brake . due in no small part to the tragic death of dorothy stratten and this movie have a special place in the heart of mr. bogdanovich he even buy it back from it producer and then distribute it on his own and go bankrupt when it do not prove popular . his rise and fall be among the more sympathetic and tragic of hollywood story and so there no joy in criticize the film . there _is_ real emotional investment in ms. stratten scene . but laugh be a faint echo of the last picture show and paper moon or what up and doc follow daisy miller and at long last love and it be a thundering confirmation of the phase from which p. b. have never emerge . all in all and though and the movie be harmless and only a waste of rental . i want to watch people have a good time and i will go to the park on a sunny day . for filmic expression of joy and love and i will stick to ernest lubitsch and jaques demy .