Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cellar, hooting up the stairs -while carping and cajoling her family into line. Helen Hayes stretches her blue eyes in amazement, pursues her mobile mouth with concern and squeaks her voice for emphasis without ever allowing the back of the theater to miss a syllable of her sublimely inconsequential comic lines...
...theater. Onstage it seems to inspire polemic frenzy, puerile logic and sob-opera bathos. That was true of the off-Broadway musical Viet Rock, and it is even truer of We Bombed In New Haven, a first play by Joseph Heller, whose Catch-22 was a novel of comic pitchblende. His lackluster drama is a kind of catchall-22, a wastebasket version of antiwar cliches too feeble for use in the novel. While the production is securely mounted by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, student actors are scarcely in evidence except as bit players. The professional credentials...
...time to stop the Czechs. Having established their consummate skill at making tragic and comic cinema using home-grown themes, they have now cracked the code of the West with a solid slapstick spoof, Lemonade Joe. The film is from the same bag as such American satires as Cat Ballon. Yet it holds its own by offering an uncompromisingly wild style and a woolly scenario, plus some of the most unlikely and unmotivated songs since Gene Autry hung up his guitar...
...David Halliwell, the playwright, gives the character a new twist. He shows in some tremendously comic episodes that his hero is a power-hungry Hitler because he's afraid he really has no power at all. Malcolm has a hard time just getting out of bed in the morning. And he has an even harder time screwing up his courage enough to accept advances from the girl he likes. Kenny McBain's production (he directed the show and played the title role) implied that hesitancy with Ann Gedge and ensuing self hatred were what spurred Malcolm on to power politics...
...Rosalind that their scenes together continually spark the show. ames Burt is a good Touchstone, if a strange one--his line readings are often incredibly fast, his hand gestures are always excessively generous, but his physical agility is delightful. Brian McGunigle (Corin) and Philippa Lord (Audrey) provide perfect comic cameos, while George Rosen doubling as Duke Senior and Duke Frederick, struggles bravely and often successfully with the one marked piece of ineffective casting in the production...