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Critics call Gregory ( Selena ) Nava's latest pop-star biopic of doo-wopster Frankie Lymon a sort of "comic Rashomon of rock-and-roll" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). Lymon, who became a star at 13 and died of a drug overdose at 25, married three women without divorcing any of them; only after his death did the three find out about one another.
At one point, Allen gives you several versions of the same climactic scene (it varies according to the historian), and the effect of all those farcical possibilities is elating: a Rashomon -like sequence where you don't give a damn what actually happened.
Critics praise his skill at depicting famous historical figures (philosopher John Locke, architect Christopher Wren) and call his Rashomon -style narrative "baroque and ingenious" (Andrew Miller, the New York Times Book Review ).
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Another Rashomon effect is on display in the papers' treatment of Alan Greenspan's congressional testimony yesterday about the just-announced Clinton proposal to allow some Social Security funds to be invested in the stock market.