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...Notorious Landlady. Jack Lemmon makes antic hay in this playful mystery-comedy with a London setting, and in one bathtub sequence, Kim Novak proves to be an accomplished nude...
...although her voice and delivery are lighter and the impact of her performances is different: for Joan's tragic, gypsy quality, Bonnie substitutes a fresh, willowy charm that never deserts her in even the darkest laments. She mixes American and French-Canadian songs, and she has a more antic taste than most of her contemporaries: On the wedding night, When he came to bed with me, He bit me on my shoulder And nearly broke my knee...
Many of Judy's songs are Scottish, English or Irish, and some of them-The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Bonnie Ship the Diamond-are not often heard in folk circles. If Baez has a tragic sense and Dobson an antic one, Collins has an intense, Holy Roller quality. Colorado-born, she is married to a teacher of English at the University of Connecticut...
...point in Antic Meet, the finale, Cunningham offered his partner a big red rose; when snubbed, he hurried off (face buried in flower) pouting like a little boy. Antic Meet was a study in absurdity. It told something of a story, a bit of a romance, with all the humor and the farce of a flirtation. The choreography really took off, exploiting the imagination and freedom of Cunningham's style: kicking splits swooping from the air to the floor, some acrobatics, and a St. Vitus Dance frenzy. In a spirit of whimsy and joy, the dancers switched from the deadpan...
Actually, it is an ordinary pie crust full of shaving cream, and 36-year-old Soupy Sales (born Milton Hines) makes about $150,000 a year largely for his exploitation of this antic vaudeville wheeze. He can fill up five minutes of TV air time simply getting schlopped with pie after pie. Who likes the act? Hordes of juvenile and juvenile-minded viewers-also, it appears, Frank Sinatra. And what Sinatra likes, the Clan likes and loyally supports...