Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, December 17 MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Scrooge by the nearsighted Magoo in a comic animation of the Dickens classic...
Robert Drew culled one hour from the staggering total of 55 he had shot, managed to catch the frantic, discombobulated rehearsals of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra; the suave calm of Met General Manager Rudolf Bing; the comic pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even...
Lemmon, as Harry Hinkle, is not the shlump his name suggests. He's a new brand of comic hero, tempered with a decent degree of ordinary human corruption (one of the ads for this movie divides the world into two types of people: "those who will do anything for money, and those who will do almost anything for money." Hinkle is of the latter stripe.) The understatement which pervades The Fortune Cookie is largely a consequence of Lemmon's beautifully understated performance...
...GARRY MOORE SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Clown King Emmett Kelly, the comic bareback-riding George Hanneford Family and those high-wire daredevils, the Flying Wallendas and the Flying Palacios, get together for the "World's Greatest Circus Stars...
...Quasimodo apart from the Inquisition. Yet the actors as individuals cannot be held responsible for their collective failure. Within the all-too-Hasty-Pudding concept of the whole production, some of the cast members fill their parts quite competently. Chris Baker, though ridiculously miscast as Mosca, delivers a good comic aside, moves comfortably around the stage, and neatly captures the slyness of the character. Peter Goldberg's Volpone is one-note throughout, since he is physically unable to simulate death-bed sickliness; otherwise Goldberg achieves a sadly uncomic lechery that fills the role, but hardly realizes...