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Taluncci uses ingenious bursts of humor to maintain his pace and to make his point. In cameo appearances, Daniel Ellsberg overhears Richard Nixon telling a dirty joke about Billy Graham and something called "Checkers," after the Committee to Re-Inspect the President installs an amplifier instead of a transmitter in Ellsberg's mother's stuffed derma...
...English, which the Doors popularized a few years ago. But there's so much great, furious music in Mahogonny that it's hard to imagine any production failing--although the only one I've seen, several years ago in New York, managed the trick convincingly. And watch for the cameo appearance of God just after the hero's electrocuted for failing to pay for two curtainrods and a bottle of whiskey...
...fleet of vintage cars, old houses and cute hints in the dialogue ("You don't want to start World War II, do you?") are supposed to provide period authenticity. Only '30s Star Joan Blondell really does, in a too-brief cameo as Banyon's matronly chum. But even here the show blows its own cover. Forster finds Blondell huddled over her wooden radio, tearfully listening to the abdication speech of Edward VIII. It is a neat trick. Edward abdicated a year before the series is supposed to take place...
...experiments in form. There are stories within stories within digressions, flights back and forth through time and a complicated diagram of the heroic cycle. There are pauses in mid-text for the narrator to comment impatiently on the unsatisfactory progress of the narrative. Heroes from other Barth novels make cameo appearances, and halfway through Bellerophoniad, Barth presents an autobiographical account of his novelistic career. For the confused reader, he obligingly provides Robert Graves's summary of the details of the Bellerophon myth...
Having reduced Thurber to a my opic misanthrope and the plot to a sentimental muddle, Director Shavelson gets better acting than he deserves. The cast makes a brave fight of it, and there is an especially fine and funny cameo by Herb Edelman, who plays Wilson's agent. While Wilson and wife war with each other over the impending operation, the agent sits with them at a restaurant table, blubbering and sobbing "the courage, the devotion," oblivious to the fact that the marriage is crumbling around...