Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fruit Flies. "The book," says Comfort, sounding more and more like a sociologist, "started to be simply a comic novel. I think now it was the manifesto of which The Joy of Sex commences the implementation." To have read Come Out to Play is like having witnessed an apple fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head: a ho-hum incident at the time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before...
Street Stud. The petals are all bruised in Miss Janie: an ice-cool, second-rate white guitarist; a cocky, unconsciously comic black nationalist; an ex-beatnik Jewish poet adrift on drugs; a dutiful black wife two-timed by her best friend, who comes through the back door every time she goes out the front...
...moment of genuine feeling, a single honest insight into the historical conditions they pretend to examine, they might have destroyed the distance their hack mentalities place between film and audience. As it is, derision finally gives way to numbness. There is not the slightest danger that this animated comic book can do anyone, of any race, any harm-unless Mel Brooks is looking to the Old South for his next subject...
...world has not been waiting for, nor is it long likely to cherish Glenda Jackson's bizarre offering: a comic Hedda Gabler. She has apparently decided that Noel Coward is really the author of the play. Her performance at Washington, D.C.'s National Theater will certainly rank high in the annals of dramatic travesty...
...promising idea: John Wayne as a Chicago cop in London to extradite a big-time gang leader who has fled his jurisdiction. The comic possibilities of watching Big John do his bullish best to get his man, while tiptoeing through the tea-cozy minefield of British decorum, seem endless. Any American who has tried to take lunch at a club in St. James's without seeming to be an absolute plonk in the headwaiter's eye will appreciate Wayne's problem -and perhaps look forward to seeing an exasperated Duke put an end to all that social...