Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. Hollywood's comic genius writes eloquently of his pitifully poor childhood but prefers name dropping to telling about his later artistic achievements. The reason for this autobiographical lapse is apparent on every page and saves the book: despite his fame, the penniless child in Charlie still marvels at the attention of the great...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. Hollywood's comic genius writes eloquently of his pitifully poor childhood but prefers name-dropping to telling about his later artistic achievements. The reason for this autobiographical lapse is apparent on every page and saves the book: despite his wealth, fame and notoriety, the penniless child in Charlie still marvels at the attention of the great...
Among the horrible and the melodramatic episodes, for example, de Ghelderode intercalates what he calls "comic and burlesque corrective potentialities"; a coffin maker, for example, consoles Jairus on Blandine's death before Blandine has, died and insists that she must be dead because he heard is rumored. Without some consistent guide, these corrective potentialities may be abused; when Jairus laments, "What ludicious mishaps around the most dramatic of happenings," they may seem indeed ludicrous, instead of strangely horrible...
...limpid, meticulous photography cannot redeem the dialogue, which the actors often appear to be addressing to Destiny rather than to one another, perhaps out of kindness. Actress Bloom intones: "He couldn't touch all we've been to each other." Newman's bandit is a growling comic-strip Mexican who leers: "You cooked dee pot of tamales, I juz' took off dee lid." And in the film's bumbling climax, ironic tragedy turns to fatuity when Harvey belly-whoppers into a clump of sage, staggers to his feet, notes a bejeweled dagger protruding bloodlessly from...
...Last Analysis, a first play by Novelist Saul Bellow, is part Jewish-family comedy, part psychoanalytical cliché, part spoof of psychoanalysis-and all claptrap. An ex-TV comic known as Bummy (Sam Levene) re-enacts his life from womb to gloom with total traumatic recall, including toilet training, sibling rivalry, and a recurring dream that he shares his bed with a white sow. Says Bummy's lawyer: "He's like a junkie on thought...