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Peter De Vries is one of those sad comics with bloodhound eyes who seem to be sniffing their gloomy way toward the ultimate one-liner: "All flesh is as grass." Or "Id is not just another big word." Or maybe: "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." The perfect allegorical hero for De Vries might be a Dutch Calvinist furniture mover from Chicago (like De Vries' father), carrying the world on his shoulders-especially the heavy end with the lode of guilt...
With each year Walter Matthau looks more and more like an affable bloodhound. His cheeks seem to grow pouchier, his eyes more sadly knowing, his manner ever more wisely patient. To his basic screen self this great comedian of calm has added, in Hopscotch, a nicely distracted air: he moves through the picture humming bits of Mozart and even, at times, conducting an imaginary orchestra...
...celebrity guests occasionally drop by to take part in the action: Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe, for example, hits a serve timed by radar, and Actor Gene Wilder illustrates communication by talking to a dog. The episodes end with a minimystery film starring three young detectives, known as the Bloodhound Gang, who reason their way to the solution of a crime...
...Youngbloods Gentleman's Club recently revived the defunct debut custom in this medium-sized city by promising to send the proceeds to some worthy cause. That first year, the new Natural History Museum received five thousand dollars and the Youngbloods retained eleven thousand to "cover costs." Tonight in the Bloodhound Room, the evening before P (for Presentation) Night, the Club is hosting cocktails and canapes for this year's class of nineteen debutantes and their parents. The girls, who have little in common beside their age, delicately probe each other's reasons for coming...
...there any way to honor that amazing bloodhound...