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...this, I suppose, could be given a boff treatment. Indeed there are a few pratfalls, just enough to provide a little variety. But there is no frantic chase after gags; the characters are consistent with themselves and with their background. The humor is scrupulously confined to the intrinsic...
...minor characters, Charlotte Rae was outstanding as a homely, unwanted young girl. Her lines were of the "boff" type, and she almost stopped the show in a trio number called Love Has Nothing to Do with Looks...
...advice to young cartoonists, a writer's magazine advised them to stay away from "serious stuff ... leave that to Bill Mauldin." It is probably sound advice. People like their cartoons, even army cartoons, to be funny, and the latrine or the mess sergeant is still good for a boff. Mauldin deals with men who are living with death, and death is not funny at all. It is uncomfortable to watch, and even from Mauldin's tough, cynical view-point, it is not good for those who want to be titillated. This is no joke book. It is a serious book...
...Make It Legal" is a lawyer's nightmare and a layman's trauma. A Grade C boff at best, the plot concerns divorce, an old suitor, and a former husband, plus the usual welter of theatrical cliches...
...orchestra and principals of Kiss Me, Kate worked on an album of the score. (One of his favorite performers is Ethel Merman, who has played in some of his biggest hits, Anything Goes, Du Barry Was a Lady, Something for the Boys, because, as she puts it, "I can boff out those lines the way he wants them.") New singers know better than to risk trying out for Porter by singing his songs. He insists on at least 28 musicians in his show orchestras (the union minimum for Kate...