Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears-and Neil Simon's comic prowess-they might tell tales as mirth-provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse...
...which has the effect of affirming experience. "When one approaches religious faith with a kind of playfulness," he says, "one can't become as anguished and inwardly torn up about belief and nonbelief as has been popular in recent theological literature. For both the Christian spirit and the comic sensibility nothing in life should be taken too seriously. The world is important but not ultimately so." One reason witty Cox is critical of a Christian atheist like Thomas Altizer is that "there is not a humorous line in his books." Adds Cox: "The recent focus of theology has been...
...series, Charlie had the shortcoming of his country's cooking-two hours after he solved a case, audiences were hungry for another sleuthing. Hollywood tried to oblige: between 1926 and 1949, it turned out 47 Charlie Chan features and serials. There were also such spin-offs as a comic strip, a radio show and a short-lived TV series. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which is more accustomed to honoring film giants such as Jean-Luc Godard, Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, opened a Charlie Chan festival that will exhume 23 of his movies, most...
...Missourian, who lumbered woodenly through 22 pictures portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue up the clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse. But bad as the films were, they were also an undergraduate...
Harvard swimmers officiated at the meet and provided some comic relief with their relay, the "Psychedelic Special...