Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JONES. Director Tony Richardson has made the greatest comic novel in the language into a gaudy, bawdy, bloody, beautiful and side-shatteringly funny farce, the best British movie since Olivier's Henry V. Albert Finney plays the hero as a marvelously likable lout, and Hugh Griffith hilariously demonstrates that in the good old days an Englishman whose passion was the chase could usually run down a pretty little dear...
...just given $300,000 for a new Bob Hope Theater at Southern Methodist University. His golfing partners are people like Richard Nixon, Stuart Symington and Del Webb. He has successfully managed the transition from dash to dignity, maintaining his status all the while as the No. 1 comic in America...
...Young blasted her as "arrogant" and "viciously anti-American." At a Cleveland banquet, Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays growled, "It's bad enough that every two-bit dictator around the world reviles and insults the U.S. at will, but it is too much to let this comic-strip Dragon Lady do it under our very noses." One high State Department official, noting that Mme. Nhu had been invited to appear before several press groups, had the effrontery to criticize the press for what he said would be "a triumphal reception...
...endeavoured in the following History," wrote Henry Fielding in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, "to laugh Mankind out of their favourite Follies and Vices." Two centuries have passed: Mankind still has its favourite Vices: and Novelist Fielding's sprawling, brawling masterpiece still stands as the greatest comic novel in the language. Now Britain's Tony Richardson (The Entertainer, A Taste of Honey) has made the novel into an absolutely magnificent movie. The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe...
That's the trouble. By loading his play with comic lines and humorous situations, Behan makes his audience laugh confusedly through a tragedy. That they laugh may prove to Behan that they are fools, but to me it proves only that a skilled dramatist can confuse his audience...