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...soles of his feet. The collection plate passed after the priest's sermon is like God's Nielsen rating. Priests drink too much wine, and nuns are the Gestapo in wimples. Among those destined to burn in hell are Roman Polanski, Big John Holmes, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. On Broadway and off, these glosses on Catholic dogma are raising smiles, nostalgic shudders and the occasional hackle, as young playwrights sculpt wicked ironies from the gothic fantasies of their parochial school youth. Last week two new "Catholic plays" joined the pair already on the New York boards...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Doris Day, 56, pert, wholesome movie actress (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace) and singer; and Barry Comden, 45, restaurateur; after five years of marriage, her fourth, his second; in Los Angeles...
...Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
...does some hoofing to match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts dreamed up by screenwriters Comden and Green, Oscar Levant and Nannette Fabray star as two writers who carry on like--who else? Comden and Green...
...Comden and Green have followed the plot line of the famed 1934 screwball-comedy film, but that line now seems monorail thin. Lacking inspired lunacy, Director Harold Prince has taken refuge in camp and stylistic cartoonery. As Oscar Jaffee, the flamboyant theatrical producer who is down on his mendacious luck, John Cullum looks and cavorts rather like a Barrymore run off by a slightly defective duplicating machine. To make a comeback, he must sign Lily Garland, the woman he catapulted to stardom, to a stage contract. In that role, Madeline Kahn displays an arsenal of talents. She is kooky, vulnerable...