Word: coco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophia Loren is a ravishing Dulcinea, but she seems to be playing a kind of high-stepping variation on Two Wom en. James Coco is soundly defeated by the role of Sancho Panza. The score by Composer Mitch Leigh and Lyricist Joe Darion contains the inescapable ballad The Impossible Dream, surely the most mercilessly lachrymose hymn to empty-headed optimism since Carousel's You'll Never Walk Alone. One expects to learn at any moment that it will be come the national anthem of some newly emerging nation...
...Trouble with People. Neil Simon presents a five-sketch special with an all-star cast including James Coco and George C. Scott. CH. 4, 9 p.m. Color...
...This is my uterus! Private property!" huffs Actor James Coco. "Please," says Robert Drivas, playing the tired claim jumper. "I've been swimming up that cervix for hours." The scene is as bizarre-and funny-as it sounds, but the message is purely educational. For Coco is a gonorrhea bacillus, and Drivas, his rival, is syphilis. Their little one-acter is part of an unprecedentedly frank one-hour special about the dangers of venereal disease that will be aired by the Public Broadcasting System next week...
...small, shrewd gestures and intuitions, as in a marvelous sequence where he watches Bobbi sing What the World Needs Now Is Love with a mounting mixture of apprehension, thwarted lust and concern that the little old lady next door will hear. Arkin is a vast improvement over James Coco's preening, keening act in the Broadway Lovers, and he has Barney's look meticulously right, down to the monogrammed pocket handkerchief he wears in the pocket of his blue business suit...
...notion is so outrageously melodramatic that Preminger was probably right in choosing to play it for comedy. He even got Elaine May to rewrite the script. Miss May, however, shrewdly chose not to have her name appear on the screen credits. The large and generally unsubtle cast includes James Coco, who acts with grotesque abandon, Ken Howard, Jennifer O'Neill and Nina Foch...