Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even a fraction of the fun separately that they did together in years past as co-stars of Your Show of Shows. Imogene seems hopelessly bogged down in inferior material. Caesar has been saddled with a story line that succeeds in making him a good deal more cantankerous than comic. Perhaps unconsciously, his show appears designed as a replay of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners on a considerably higher income level. Caesar's continuing sketch, The Commuters, deals with suburbanites. In this framework, he plays a grown-up juvenile delinquent whose temper tantrums and general unpleasantness make...
...fortunate results of the up-dated version is the addition of a blowsy friend for Carmen, a part which Pearl Bailey puffs out to her own talents. Miss Bailey "Beats Out That Rhythm On a Drum" and rolls out the film's few comic lines. She is the only member of the all-Negro cast to use her own voice, which is as it should...
...Hollywood, dogs are naturally more nervous than dogs in other places. The trouble, says Dr. Stanley Cooper, a busy Hollywood veterinarian, is that movie pets are living under the strain of Cinema-Scope and wide-screen tension. Last week, while waiting for Comic Jerry Lewis' poodle to come out of a coma. Cooper, a kindly, 36-year-old man, explained some of his theories...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder not all the bloom is off his faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...
...gods who had endowed Wilde so richly with comic gifts refused to allow him the bonus of tragedy. Apart from The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Wilde produced nothing in the three years between his release from prison and his death (in 1900, of cerebral meningitis). Humor was his nature, sorrow only his perversity-as he himself may have realized, for it is said that when confronted with a huge bill for a surgical operation toward the end of his life, he sank back into the arms of the Comic Muse, saying: "Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have...