Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...male chorus is on the whole stronger than the female chorus, with Mark Szpak and John Behn turning in some fine cameo performances. Szpak demonstrates great comic versatility in very funny bits as a socialist immigrant and an inept political orator spewing malapropisms...
...teeth. His teeth? Well, at least that's the way it happens in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood. The film, a spoof of the movie business in the 1920s, features Madeline Kahn as WTT's trainer, Art Carney as a tyrannical studio director-plus cameo appearances by Victor Mature, Rhonda Fleming and some 60 Hollywood veterans. No matter that Won Ton Ton bears a striking resemblance to another German shepherd screen star of the same era. A Los Angeles judge has already decided against a producer of the Rin Tin Tin television series...
...greater excesses of violence. It moves like a marauding army. Not only are people trampled and windows broken, but fires start, telephone poles fall, and Hollywood Boulevard seems to shake. West's modest riot was more effective than Schlesinger's whole set piece. But this silly cameo of World War II is perfectly in order for a movie so far out of control...
Accompanying the text are a variety of photographs (reproductions and slides by Tod Stuart from The Carpenter Center for The Visual Arts), some enlarged to fill one or more whole panels, as a picture of Anna Howard Shaw, lace-collared feminist; some in old-fashioned oval cameo frames. Other graphics include illustrations of old sewing machines culled from early catalogues, some alarming anatomical diagrams captioned "effects of corsets on the rib cage and organs," a high-stepping Flapper, scenes of factory work--a whole range of women in their changing images...
...School professor Abram Chayes may take some ribbing in this morning's classes for the hilarious charade cameo he performs as a law school professor trying to evoke some response out of his less than diligent students. But he should take it lightly. He is far and away the greatest comic in the show. John Enteman as a George C. Scottish Judge Hiram Chokum and Bill Wilkins as Professor A.J. Cashner trail Chayes but execute their songs clearly and only occasionally send their jokes ahead via Western-Union...