Word: comic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...madly in love with Cesario, who is really the shipwrecked Viola (Kathleen Widdoes) in male disguise. Before the plot is piloted to safe harbor, there are mistaken identities to be resolved, twin brother and sister to be reunited, true love's partners to be mated, and the lowbrow comic shenanigans of that Tweedledum-Tweedledee pair Sir Toby Belch (Leslie Yeo) and Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Frank Maraden) to beguile the time. The entke company is rich in skill and works with selfless unity to bring out the very best in the play...
...Allen comedy. It is worth the fee. For unlike his closest cinematic competitor, Mel Brooks, Allen aims his custard pies up, not down. If his humor is merciless, it is not unkind; Boris' angry monologues with God are closer to Fiddler on the Roof than to comic on the make. The same affection courses through his parodies of Fellini and Bergman and of Pierre at Borodino. In mocking classics, in touching on the topics of religion and mortality, Allen has drawn laughter where there was silence and mustaches where there were faces...
What sets Jaws apart from most of the other ceiling busters and makes it a special case, like The Godfather, is that it is quite a good movie. For one thing, it is mercifully free of the padding-cosmic, comic, cultural-that so often mars "big" pictures. In that sense, the movie is very like its subject. If the great white shark that terrorizes the beaches of an island summer colony is one of nature's most efficient killing machines, Jaws is an efficient entertainment machine...
...adapted his first wife Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes for the screen in 1941. His best-known creation, Bella Gross, drawn from The Bronx immigrant neighborhoods where he grew up, appeared in innumerable cartoons and New Yorker stories and remains the model for an enduring comic genre: the put-upon Jewish girl who is forever hounded by her mother to get out and "catch a nice boy, a doctah...
...Carlo in 1925, shortly after he first met Ravel. Perhaps it would have been better to let the work retreat into decent obscurity. This new production is sumptuous by City Ballet standards, but the singers are nearly incomprehensible, the Daliesque sets poorly lit and the comic effects too often unfunny...