Word: comic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This role is wonderfully defined by Alan Arbus, a resourceful comic actor Lest hopes be raised too high, however, let it quickly be added that Arbus is a supporting player in Law and Disorder, and that this scene is remarkable in a film that is otherwise filled with hollow horse-laughs about the hard lot of life in Manhattan. The two stars of the movie are Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine, who appear as a couple of working stiffs fighting back against the indignities of existence in a big city their children are molested, flashers approach their wives...
Between state banquets in the South Seas and his more serious duties with the Royal Navy, Britain's Prince Charles has found lime for yet another avocation, that of literary critic. Writing for Punch, the satirical English weekly, Charles offers some regal praise for portly Comic Harry Secombe, veteran of Ihe BBC's Goon Show and author of the recently published Twice Brightly. Freely admitting his "hopeless bias" in Secombe's favor, the rookie reviewer disclosed to his readers that he "was shaken with spasms of helpless mirth al frequent intervals" over Secombe's novel...
Divorced. Jackie Gleason, 58, TV comic whose role as Bus Driver Ralph Kramden became a classic; and Beverly McKittrick, 42, his former secretary; after four years of marriage-his second -no children; in Fort Lauderdale...
...example, Dan Marcus did a particularly fine job with the difficult role of the energetic, eccentric, forceful, comic and uncompromising LaGuardia, remaining believable when he could have easily succumbed to caricature...
Even a more promising comic situation than this--Ford's advisors instructing him in the basics of economic theory--is reduced to a single, simple joke. Three people play different sectors of the economy and hand over play-money to each other. Predictably, the business sector gets it all and the whole thing winds up being slightly less funny than an Ec 10 lecture. Some skits are more successful, but don't seem particularly original--the one about the guru who celebrates "the banal and the obvious" sounds a lot like the National Lampoon's Craig Baker series, for example...