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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Bert Chal-lenon (Ralph Nossek) holds an opposite view: "Don't try to be deep. Keep it simple. Any good comedian can lead an audience by the nose. But only in the direction they're going. And that direction is, quite simply, escape." The two who follow Challenon's advice win. The boy (Kenneth Cranham) who goes into a brilliantly pantomimed rage against two cardboard effigies of the middle class loses. What he epitomizes is about as funny as death, the price a British Lenny Bruce might have to pay for acceptance. T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtains Up in London | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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