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FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A basically sentimental celebration of fatherhood-Jewish fatherhood, in particular-that rises above itself because of the author's high craftsmanship, fine irony and strong sense of the absurd...
Thus continued the absurd ironies occasioned by the broadcasting strike that began two weeks ago: on the inside, a thin, red-eyed line of executives and management staffers making like performers; on the outside, the well-clad picket line of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, proving by their absence that radio and TV could use a change of face once in a while...
...preoccupation-cherchez la femme. The plot is as old as Gaul, and only a new director would have the gall to tell it again: the sleepy middle-aged husband, the nubile wife, the young stranger (Henri Garcin). But Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 33, has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting. An actor in the mugging tradition of Toto and Fernandel, Philippe Noiret is excellent as the pawky, paunchy husband; and Catherine Deneuve, as his restless wife, is as light and tart as a lemon soufflé. They and their fellow farceurs prove that in the right...
...That the Redgraves "have been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as the first family of stage and screen" is fine and dandy. But I find it absurd to honor them as "the nearest thing to the Barrymores that the era has produced." I have had occasion to see both Lynn and Vanessa perform, and have gone away unimpressed. The Barrymores' acting talent has left me a lifelong admirer of Lordly Lionel, Jovial John and Exquisite Ethel...
...1930s for all who grew up with "Ovaltine Birthstone & Good Luck Rings . . . Joe Louis . . . black Fords with NRA stickers . . . tops from Ralston boxes to send away as a mark of esteem for Tom Mix." Novelist Gold (Therefore Be Bold) writes with fine irony, a strong sense of the absurd, and at times with the cynical insight accumulated by a perceptive man in 43 years of watching the shell game...