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...book goes: a series of clever and too-clever points scored against a character too unsubstantial to require more than a moment's wry smile. William has a daughter. Naturally she is dull and sniveling; of course she hates his bedtime stories; inevitably she becomes a kleptomaniac. William has an antique business. Of course it loses money. His friends chip money off him in huge hunks, and so do two wretched mistresses whom he inadvertently acquires. Waterhouse goes on making jokes: " 'Are you having an affair with somebody?' asked Poodle as he brushed dandruff from his shoulders...
...Times critic, states the ambivalence of Hair's score the best. In his various pieces about the show (It has opened three times, twice off-Broadway and, most recently, on Broadway last March), Barnes has said, "This is pop-pop, or commercial pop, with little aspirations to art--2 clever dilution of ... pop music. Fundamentally, it is pure Broadway--but Broadway 1969 rather than Broadway 1949. . . . It's noisy and cheerful conservatism is just right for an audience that might wince at Sgt. Pepper...
Thursday, February 20 HE'S YOUR DOG, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Charlie's clever canine will never go homeless. Repeat...
...Weekend, French Film Maker Jean-Luc Godard foresees the end of the world as an immense traffic jam. Stanley Kubrick sees the men of 2001 as murder victims of a machine they have made more clever than themselves...
...Fellini. In the final analysis, it is his resolute humanity that breathes so wonderfully from this new film, a simple sincerity in dealing with the difficulty and complexity of being human. He brings to bear in Shame an intelligence that is in no way contrived or self-indulgently clever, for he has the confidence of an honest...