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...With a foreword by Playwright Sean O'Casey, one of the century's great tragicomedies boils up again from the Dublin slums. Siobhan McKenna, as Juno, has in her voice all the ache and sorrow of Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Seamus Kavanagh makes his Captain a lovable buffoon for most of three acts and - at the right moment - turns him into a villain; Cyril Cusack whines and wheedles his way magnificently into the role of Joxer Daly...
From the cluttered studio of Detroit's station WXYZ came rumblings that a fresh new talent had successfully invaded the troubled precincts of TV comedy: a youthful (31), crewcut, putty-faced buffoon named Soupy Sales (real: Milton Hines), whose daily kiddie show, Comics, has outpulled such network favorites as Arthur Godfrey Time and the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show to become the top-rated daytime show in the area. Late each night Soupy's on in Soupy's On with a cultivated zaniness and a woolly collection of characters that faintly echo the bite of bigger wits...
...high bid of $2,184, a U.S. dealer pocketed a sheaf of 20 tumultuous love letters to Alice Lockett, a red-haired nurse, written in London three-quarters of a century ago by an impoverished Irish suitor named George Bernard Shaw. Some excerpts: "Granted that I am a buffoon-one whose profession is to bribe people to listen to me by literary antics such as silly tales of lovemaking and so forth. But has anyone been more serious with you than I? If you have made me feel, have I not made you think?" "Write to me, and I will...
...rather imperfectly told, came to town years before with his wife and the climate drove him to drink. He operated on her in childbirth when he was drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they are. And the film ends with the doctor deciding to resume...
Ernie Kovacs, 38, is the one television comedian who finds most of his tee-hee in TV itself. He is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), messy, cigar-frazzling buffoon who uses cameras, sets, sound effects to make rowdy electronic fun. He may duel and play poker with himself or shoot a hole through his head and blow smoke through it. Once he appeared to viewers inside a huge bottle, holding an umbrella to keep off the rain. He was slowly submerged, then he tapped the bottle with a hammer; and glass, water and Kovacs spilled onstage. Curling...