Word: comical
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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...
...PRODUCERS. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder play two Broadway producers in this disjointed movie, which, in spite of its many faults, occasionally rises to classic comic heights...
Last week Cavett interviewed Comic Pat McCormick, who discussed the possible effects of a steel strike on the California Christmas-tree market. Cavett is still too innocent to prevent a veteran pitchman like Art Linkletter from wresting the show away from him and giving a 15-minute spiel for a new game he helped invent. But in defense, Cavett, a former gag writer, can fall back on old material. Once, he said, when he was out of work, he used to write dirty jokes for kids to use on Linkletter's TV House Party...
...little different" from other conglomerates: "We're building faster." In Scharffenberger's first 24 months, City has opened talks with more than a dozen companies, has bought its way into fields as varied as military ordnance (American Electric Inc. of La Mirada, Calif.), magazines and comic books (St. Louis' World Color Press) and steel containers (Manhattan's Rheem Manufacturing...
Thirty Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia is a vanity fair devoted to showing off the talents of Comic-Pianist Dudley Moore, the bedeviled star of Bedazzled and Beyond the Fringe (and Suzy's offscreen escort). This time he plays a 29-year-old jazzman born under the sign of Virgo who worries that "if you don't make it by the time you're 30, you'll never make it." Before reaching that climacteric, he resolves to write a hit musical and get married. Moore manages to do both-and do them comically-thanks in large...