Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff fills every round with comic impact in this verbal slugfest, pitting a fiery, sexy shrew, Diana Sands, against a self-righteous bookstore clerk, Alan Alda...
Since plot is nought, Ball relies on Buddy Hackett for a nightlong transfusion of comic relief. He can fire a salvo of laughter with the whites of his eyes, and step on a dud line so that it explodes, but he has to work so hard to be playful that it kills the fun. Apart from Hackett, only Luba Lisa comes out of this Coney Island carnage with talent and personality arrestingly intact. Moving like a sexy-hexy wind-up doll, with the voice of a Jewish Chatty Cathy and the body of Salome, she gives the impression of being...
Died. William Bendix, 58, comic and character actor, whose fireplug face and concrete-mixer voice stole the show in more than 50 Hollywood productions (The Hairy Ape, The Babe Ruth Story) and on TV's The Life of Riley, a series about a dopey factory riveter that so tickled the viewers it ran for eight years, bringing Bendix some $3,000,000 in salary-which, as he put it, "isn't bad for a guy who was on relief in 1934"; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
...fictional furbelows are trimmed, and some dazzling cinematic doodads added. The camera sees much that Kazantzakis didn't, and the movie is often funnier than the book-Kedrova's minx emeritus, she of the floor-length eyelashes, frequent chins and raucous reminiscences is, for instance, a major comic creation. Zorba, of course, is the heart and soul of the show, and Quinn plays him to hellangone. In his finest frames, at the dominant moments of the drama, he is the fire of life itself, a piece of the sun in the shape...
...course to a highly salutary end. Pinter leads the playgoer very far from home to signify that something at the mysterious heart of human existence consists in being precisely there-very far from home. The Room and A Slight Ache are early Pinter one-acters of quasi-comic menace, not always dexterous but distinctly absorbing, the work of a man forming his own indelible dramatic signature...