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...Queen of Comedy, Carol Burnett, is the funniest...
...County cost $300,000 to make and she scrounged it from wherever she could. "When I'd run out of money I'd come back to New York and take whatever job I could, editing, sound, until I got enough to go back," she says. Her uncle is Murray Burnett, who wrote a play called Rick's Place, which later became Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, and earning Burnett the grand sum of $8,000. "Later he wrote a book called Hickory Stick, didn't copyright it, and they made it into Blackboard Jungle. He didn't get a penny...
...stories he has been told. As an autobiographer, Terkel is modest to the point of evasion. Given the chance to tell all about himself, he elects to tell almost nothing. "I'm constantly play-acting," he says with unusual self-consciousness during an interview with Ivy Compton-Burnett. "Here, with you, I begin to talk like you. When I'm with a Chicago hoodlum, I talk like him. I'm a chameleon." This free-floating identity comes with the territory that Terkel long ago carved out for himself. Through sheer unobtrusiveness, he has become a man after...
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS was a vehicle for Carol Burnett, who used the leading role of Princess Winifred the Woebegone as a stepping stone to television immortality. The show is based on the fairy tale of the princess whose royal lineage is proven when a pea lying beneath 20 mattresses disturbs her sleep. The show's one-dimensional fairy tale plot exaggerates the frothy, cute tendencies inherent in most American musical comedies. With minimal character development and a score which also lacks distinction, the play depends on a showcase of individual talents rather than the merits of a coherent story...
Fortunately for director Ralph Gibson and the audience, the Leverett House production features a cast of talented musical-comedy actors and actresses who manage to keep the aimless plot amusing. Although Burnett's humor set the pace in the original production, Harriet Mermes's appealingly Klutzy and earthy Winifred does not carry the show. Mermes's best moment occurs in the second act, when she has the stage to herself as she attempts to fall asleep. She yawns and stretches and mugs her way to bed only to be foiled by the pea under her mattresses...