Word: carson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A Friars Club Roast. This year, the organization of showfolks skewers Johnny Carson. Alan King is roastmaster with Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Ed McMahon, Don Rickles, Groucho Marx, Flip Wilson and New York Mayor John Lindsay...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Alan Arkin's magnificent performance as the mute in this Hollywood adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel is the only real glimmer of poetry in an otherwise determinedly prosaic film...
Mixed Clips. By themselves, Frye's monologues are only passingly humorous. But, seemingly coming from the very mouths of his characters, they take on a kind of ear-twitching incongruity that can make every utterance hilarious. On Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, Frye convulsed the audience by dubbing mixed-up voices onto the sound track of various film clips: one moment, Lyndon Johnson was on the screen speaking in the gravelly voice of Nelson Rockefeller; the next, Humphrey was speechifying in the rumbling tones of Everett Dirksen...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. This adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel turns most of the author's poetry to humdrum visual prose, but Alan Arkin as the gentle, selfless mute John Singer lifts the film out of the ordinary...
...disfigurements are merely emotional. Arthur's death after his brief romance with Junie is rather predictable, and the ending is too pat. But Miss Kellogg displays an easy, lightly satirical command of the hospital-medical milieu, as befits a professional therapist (one of her patients was the late Carson McCullers). And, perhaps most promising of all, she writes with a crispness and economy that is all too rare in any novel-first, last or in between...