Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been alleged that John Lithgow is a giraffe. Those who maintain this position malign his genius. He is the best comic actor at Harvard, not for any physical peculiarity, but because his sense of timing, his vocal and muscular control, are more refined than anyone else...
...seems to be watching his fellow actors as well as reacting to them. Half his glances seem really directed at the audience. This reserve may well be justified in the magical character he plays. But it does close off one means of audience involvement. And it limits his comic effect. You can't project omniscience and take the audience in. Even if you have all the answers, you have to look fooled to be funny...
HENRY IV, PART I & HENRY IV, PART II (Caedmon). There are those who believe that Falstaff is the greatest comic character in English literature, and these recordings will not disappoint them. Anthony Quayle's voice combines the tavern-soaked grossness of "fat Jack" with the agile wit and arrogant flair of Sir John. Michael Redgrave as Hotspur seems at times to get only false teeth into the part...
...Ball started out as a musical. But when the show began coming unstuck, Comic Buddy Hackett simply stuffed the play in his hip pocket and forgot about it. He now scatters nightclub-style monologues throughout the show, and after the final curtain, in between ad libs, puts on his fellow actors and clowns away to his heart's content. Everyone has such a good time that in its 20th week the third-rate show took in a respectable $50,000-plus...
...kaleidoscope rattling full of the artist's favorite images, plastic ice cubes filled with bolts or ball bearings, a signed shopping bag for a group show of what artists collect. It takes at least that much to entice jaded connoisseurs away from their collections of old Batman comic books and portable ant colonies. Meanwhile, the artists were busy nailing, gluing and boxing together things that are neither...