Word: benchley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other celebrities, dead or alive, include Eugene Ionesco, Nobel Poet Miguel Asturias, Federico García Lorca, Donald Barthelme, Willie Morris, R.F. Delderfield, Anne Sexton, Christina Rossetti, Ernest Gaines and Nathaniel Benchley. Some of their juvenile works are included below...
...Robert Benchley once divided the world into two kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who do not. Director Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, Satyricori) is firmly in the first category. In his new film, The Clowns, Fellini separates mankind into two classic species of fool: Pierrot and Auguste. Pierrot is the familiar circus clown in floppy white and conical hat, elegant and haughty. The clown Auguste is an eternal tramp, crumpled, drunken and rebellious...
Meanwhile, thinly disguised as an ex-con named Henri Charrière, who manages to resemble both the late Robert Benchley and not-so-early George Raft, Papillon the man has turned up in Paris to promote Papillon the book. He is photographed with Brigitte Bardot. For Paris Match, he revisits French Guiana and poses in the crumbling cells of the now abandoned penal colony. "Would you like to come back to France for good?" a reporter asks him. "France is my blood," says Papillon, with that terse flair that never seems to desert him. "Venezuela is my heaven...
...Yorker as: "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!"; "Close cover before striking match"; "Rock of ages, cleft for me"; and "Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John." Associate Editor Gardner Botsford explains that he gets bored writing the same straight capsule reviews of long-run shows. So did Robert Benchley when he handled theater listings for the original Life magazine in the '20s. Of Abie's Irish Rose, which ran 2,327 performances, Benchley once babbled: "One,two,three,four,five,six, seven,eight,nine,ten." But Botsford has added a new literary dimension. He is currently using...
...British Actor Nicol Williamson, who was invited to perform for 270 people at the third of the Nixons' "Evening at the White House" series. Williamson enthralled his audience with soliloquies and songs from Shakespeare, passages from Death of a Salesman and Inadmissible Evidence, and snatches of Robert Benchley, E.E. Cummings and William Butler Yeats. Then he led the dancing-music courtesy of The World's Greatest Jazz Band-in the State Dining Room. At one point the multitalented Williamson grabbed a trumpet and played a few bars; later on grabbed some of his guests by belting...