Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Egan, the jester who chaffs with Helen and the Countess, affects an implausibly insouciant air, but derives more humor from his quibbling lines than one would have thought modern audiences could appreciate. Guy Kuttner, in another comic role, spatters the stage with grunts and gutteral gibberish as he pretends to be translating some esoteric tongue; for all its lack of subtlety it's a funny...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A daring mixture of unlike comic elixirs-Lee Marvin, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters-which may blend into a palatable draught...
...federal and state mediators worked feverishly to end the strike, only one Boston paper-the nationally distributed, nonunionized Christian Science Monitor-continued to publish. To fill the news gap, the Harvard Crimson put out an extra four-page edition called the Boston Crimson. Cartoonist Al Capp read his own comic strip Li'l Abner over television for what he called the "culturally depraved people of Boston." Out-of-work newsmen appeared nightly on television, where they did not distinguish themselves. Reading the news in unmodulated voices with pained expressions on their faces, they stumbled over words while nervously fingering...
...archly mock-Edwardian; the pace, trampolin-bouncy. The sprung rhythms prove complementary, and the cast handle the outlandish fool ery like seasoned farceurs. The show does have its slack and silly moments, but never when Paul Ford is dead center, deadpan and dead earnest, the dourest living master of comic mayhem...
...approach to Chekhov emphasizes detachment and the fine etching of character. The proscenium arch is mandatory, the sets are deep, the action well separated from the audience. The long, pregnant pause is preferred to the passionate cry. This approach plays up the interaction of secondary "characters" for poignancy and comic effect, and plays down the potential melodrama of violent love, suicide and duels. Jonathan Black's staging of The Seagull at the Loeb last season was a fine production within this convention...