Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BROADWAY TONIGHT (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Premiere of a variety show introducing young talent. Rudy Vallee is host, Paul Anka celebrity guest. Performers include Comic Rich Little and Singer Kitty Lester...
...music of an exciting time, full of violent contrasts." The Tanglewood program presented by Pro Musica ranged from the solemn Lamentations of Jeremiah to the sprightly "hey ding a ding" of It Was a Lover and His Lass, an exquisitely chiseled duologue for recorder and flute, a blatantly comic Tobacco Is Like Love, and a spirited London Street Cries, alive with the calls of street vendors and town criers...
...loved making his new picture, That Man from Rio, a protracted comic strip in motion that rams into two hours every cliche of the classic cinema chase pictures. On location in Brazil, he never used a double. He walked along a ten-story ledge and hung from a wire 70 ft. high. Once he was warned that a stream was too dangerous to swim in, being chock full of poisonous serpents, carnivorous disease-carrying insects and razor-teethed fish. Belmondo tossed a chunk of corned beef into the water. When nothing happened to it, he dove in, saying: "What...
...Chekhov's comic irony to show how sorry his characters feel for themselves. It is his genius for finding the human pulse to make playgoers feel sorry for them too. But if a masterpiece may have a flaw, it is perhaps that Chekhov tries to make pathos do the work of tragedy. If the sisters and the men around them draw their breath in pain, they rarely raise a finger against fate. They are small sinners and great talkers. Masha comes closest to making a breakthrough to life by falling in love with an unhappily married colonel (Kevin McCarthy...
Lacking in plot, unevenly paced, and peopled with caricatures, "Love's Labour's Lost" is as much vaudeville as a comic valentine to the Renaissance theme of nature. And Hamlin is fortunate in four actors who ham it up delightfully...