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...family. Though his premiums are soaring, he insists on taking out equal insurance policies for all three women. To make ends meet, he begins moonlighting as a jazz pianist in a honkytonk. A new complication is added when lis son finds him there and dismisses him contemptuously as a buffoon...
Dick is the straight man, Tom is the bumbling buffoon. Between skits, they sing fractured folk songs. In the middle of Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, for example, Tom will interrupt with a snigger: "Hey, Michael, you'd better get that boat back; you'll lose your deposit." Or, eyes rolling like lopsided marbles, stuttering as though his tongue were mired in sludge, he will launch a monologue that begins anywhere and goes nowhere. When Dick glowers disapprovingly, Tom bawls like a seven-year-old: "Mom always liked you best...
...phrases that really rocked the U.N. Plaza were those of Stokely Carmichael: "There is a higher law than the law of Racist McNamara; there is a higher law than the law of the fool Dean Rusk; there is a higher law than the law of the buffoon Lyndon Baines Johnson." Though Stokely never defined it, his law was demagoguery, pitched to all authority haters...
FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage. The film flickers with the glitter of genius-amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...
FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon dominates the stage. The film flickers with the glitters of genius-amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence...