Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really didn't have to, since the growth of the story is away from the comic mode toward something more rueful, and more interesting, in mood. Bogdanovich ends his film with the 1915 premiere of The Birth of a Nation, the first major American feature-length film, a work of unprecedented scope, cost and profitability. Its success over night made the movies into a serious business. To remain competitive there after required a considerable investment of time and money...
CALIFORNIA SUITE. Neil Simon in top comic form, and who, pray who, can top that...
Dishy makes this ethical transition with such self-blinding suppleness that the effect is succulently comic...
...thing remotely wrong. Larry Gelbart's book is a naughty treasure laced with sassy one-liners and the ambience of bawdry that he brought to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. As for the formidably gifted George C. Scott, he scales a summit of comic artistry in a stage career that seems to consist only of acting peaks...
...satirist turns reactionary. That is why Wolfe wiggles his eyebrows when he hears wealthy Easterners proclaim a distaste for fancy living and a love of the underprivileged: "Everybody had sworn off fashion, but somehow nobody moved to Cincinnati to work among the poor." That is why he deflates the comic-strip balloons that people who think they are humane so often utter: "Or as a well-known, full-grown socialite. Amanda Burden, said ... 'The sophistication of the baby blacks has made me rethink my attitudes.' " That is why he mocks the now pieties of the new morality...