Word: comically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway comedy of an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his fussy, divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transformed to the screen virtually unchanged. Actor Matthau more than makes up for the static mise en scene with his comic genius...
...Another cartoon shows a striking telephone employee uneasily eying a solid wall of computerized dialing equipment. Down in the corner of the drawing, a miniature repairman informs Punk: "This strike may not work. That machine is a scab." Oliphant admits to using this slightly puerile device to lure the comic-strip readers to his cartoon. "It's a form of brain washing," he says...
...film's most honest character, a 17-year-old, spouts Maoisms while being seduced. The film centers around Vittorio (beautifully played by Glattco Mauri), a rich bourgeois who out of vanity accepts the Socialist nomination for a local office. They want his respectability to hide his own rather comic ineffectuality. Of course all these hypocrisies destroy each other. The radicals take on Vittorio's bourgeoisie, while he remains as impotent in politics as in his own home...
...Last year, according to Walt Disney Productions, 240 million people throughout the world saw a Disney movie, 100 million watched a Disney TV show every week, 800 million read a Disney book or magazine, 50 million heard Disney music, 150 million read a Disney comic strip, and 7,900,000 visited Disneyland...
...play is a curious animal: a comic rehearsal of serious ideas, tricked out like an operatic or cinematic spectacular. The intellectual substance (and thus, the dramatic substance, for after all, this is Shaw) of the play is contained in a series of richly humorous but intimate conversations, between two, three, or four major characters. These are scenes directed primarily at the ear, and it is in them that the production is at its best. Eddying about the pivotal encounters, however, is Shaw's depiction of the varied and colorful life of the Egyptian court and Roman camp. These physical details...