Word: acrobat
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...over 20 years since Burt Lancaster appeared in one of the most infectiously giddy of all adventure films, The Crimson Pirate, bounding over battlements, leaping from one mast of a frigate to another. That movie seemed molded, in part, around his early training as an acrobat, to which he added his own vaunting energy. Lancaster's ebullient stunts, their seeming spontaneity and gleeful effortlessness, made him seem like a scruffier, scrappier Douglas Fairbanks...
Shadow Boxing. One of the troupe's most extraordinary acts is the longpole trick. One acrobat casually balances a 16-ft. bamboo pole between his shoulder and chin. A second climbs aboard, shins up to the top, and once there slowly swings his legs out parallel to the ground. Putting one foot in a velvet loop attached to the pole, he stands, then reaches down to a third acrobat, and the two perform a series of elaborate hand-to-hand exercises...
...their joinery, are virtually illustrations of the American grain). From his constructions emanates a wild, laconic humor that is the obverse of puritan sensibility. But the environment that Westermann's images suggest has also to do with rootlessness: carnival sideshows-he was at one time a professional acrobat-and the miniature theater of penny arcades...
...interior sequences. The actors have an easy relaxed sense of comedy that keeps the more obvious jokes from becoming slick. Especially funny are Sue Cole (Columbine, the Nag) playing a Dolly Levi style matchmaker with a touch of Mae West, and Steve Peterman (Scapino, the Acrobat) is a funky Snake in the Garden of Eden. Joe Gurman, as Harlequin, the Manager, is burdened with more than his fair share of heavyweight lines, although a lighter, more self-amused interpretation might have camoflauged some of the script's moralizing. Producer-director Paul Harrison has met limitations of budget and set with...
Divorced. Burt Lancaster, 55, onetime acrobat turned Oscar-winning actor (Elmer Gantry); by Norma Marie Lancaster; on grounds of cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, 5 children; in Santa Monica, Calif...