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With a backhanded compliment for this film, a critic was funny.


During the mid 1990s, people in the DC area had to read hard copies of this weekly

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/

to get the best film reviews for screenings of oldies. DC has several museums that have movie theaters. The Internet barely existed in the mid 1990s.

A critic for that weekly paper made me laugh in the mid 1990s when he said the following about Fiddler on the Roof on the occasion of a revival screening in the DC area.

"The location cinematography and rugged scenery in Czechoslovakia squeeze the goo from the material."

It would be funny to show a clipping, possibly a Xeroxed clipping, of that remark to some residents of your local Hebrew Home for the Aged. Watch their faces as they exclaim, "What do you mean ... GOO ?"

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He had some geographical confusion: it was filmed in Yugoslavia.

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