DOUBLE TROUBLE.(Melinda and Melinda)(Movie Review)

Imagine Neil Simon and Arthur Miller engaged in a mettlesome debate: Is life a comedy or a tragedy? Is our "deeper reality" a joke or a catastrophe? That's the idea behind Woody Allen's new movie, "Melinda and Melinda." At a restaurant in the Village, four friends are having dinner. Two of them are playwrights, one specializing in comedy (Wallace Shawn), the other in serious drama (Larry Pine). The atmosphere, warmed by wine and fellowship, is expansive, grandiloquent. One of the diners sets forth a proposal, and we see it as told: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, slender, blond, and travelling light, shows up unexpectedly at the apartment of married ...