Word: comically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUPLE. An alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) are at each other's throats again in this almost literal translation of Neil Simon's Broadway hit. Actor Matthau's comic genius makes amends for the static mise en scéne. BELLE DE JOUR. Ranging easily from anticlerical broadsides to highly polished pornography, this bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a beautiful young wife (Catherine Deneuve) makes a fitting capstone to the 40-year career of Spanish Director Luis...
...Artist Roy Lichtenstein, who painted this week's cover, says that Kennedy is one of the very few real people he has ever portrayed. The 44-year-old artist usually turns out comic-strip-style superheroes with square jaws and their girl friends with superperfect coiffures. What he liked most about Kennedy, he says, was his "lively, upstart quality and pop-heroic proportions as part of a legend...
...nowadays, it is not merely fashionable but an absolute advantage to be black. By next season, just about every series will feature a Negro player. NBC, which will carry Julia, has had Diahann Carroll tied up for the title role since March. CBS signed Comic Flip ("Heah come de judge") Wilson for four Ed Sullivan dates next year, but NBC won exclusive rights to him for 1969-70. And CBS is reportedly trying to buy Bill Cosby away from NBC with a 20-year, $20 million deal...
...other men's), countless boudoirs, the stodgy academic community and the massed roadblocks of commercial hypocrisy. Buckthorne's mortal fatigue may be the result of amorous overindulgence. Then again it may just stem from the fact that he seems to have starred in so many recent comic novels. But Cassill's prose is swift, precise and clever, and on the strength of it Rodney may be worth one final evening's visit before he is turned out to pasture...
ANDREW and Paul Tracey, the brothers who started the whole thing as a last-minute fill-in for a vacant slot at a Johannesburg theatre, play the show as if they had never seen it before. Equally enthusiastic is Kendrew Lascelles, the chief comic, who also devised some of the choreography. Mr. Lascelles, periodically strolling on stage wearing a floor-length black coat and carrying a tuba that he cannot play, looks like a banana waiting to be peeled. He also has a way of bunching up his entire torso into his breast, a trick he's likely to pull...