Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original program. The band formed an Oedipal mask. The announcer added: "After reading Freud, the band has realized that the annual return of alumni to their alms ma- ter is symptomatic of a complex usually associated with a Greek tragic hero." Concluding the show, the band formed a comic mask and played "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear...
...COUPLE. The comic insight of Playwright Neil Simon gives hilarious credibility to a household of two husbands who find out - by living together - why their wives couldn't stand to live with them...
...people of Handshoe Hollow are in no sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very...
Blonde-less Bond. By last week, still intact physically-if not emotionally-were two more of the film's featured players, TV Comic (Treasure Hunt) Jan Murray and blonde Starlet Diana Millay. Diana is cast as a wilderness nurse, for there is no Jane nor love interest in Producer Weintraub's 1960s concept of the Edgar Rice Burroughs hero. "They like to think of their new Tarzan as 'the James Bond of the Jungle,'" she complains, "but Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan...
Alan King, one of the pooh-bahs of show biz, plays the psychiatrist with two alternating expressions. He pops his eyes like the late Benito Mussolini, and he breaks into a slow-burn grin like a pregnant volcano. This gives him wice the comic range of the play...