Word: custard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climax of this primitive business is a custard-pie war in a beatnik beer and poetry parlor. Pie-facing, like pratfalling, seems to be a lost art nowadays, and Avalon desecrates the memory of Deadpan Harry Langdon: he stands there and actually squinches up his eyes before the strawberry cream splatters all over his pretty face. Nonetheless, Annette goes ape for Frankie, crooning "I was such a fool/ To treat him so crool...
...reaches way back to those zany rich-girl-marries-chauffeur comedies of the '30s for its plot. To give Ball new bounce, Director David Swift (The Parent Trap] has transferred the action to the Riviera, hustled in a bagful of props: a pink yacht with matching luggage, a custard-cake skyscraper for dessert, a floating baby grand for the pool. But to keep this kind of souffle inflated is primarily up to a bubbly blonde. Hope Lange. She is the chauffeur-chasing American heiress who keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection of slinky bizarrities...
...consists of ten autobiographical pieces that take Miller from his Brooklyn boyhood through his apprenticeship in a tailor's shop to the hard life of a literary bum in Paris. Bits are wonderfully done with vivid scenes of jazzed-up action, like an early silent movie full of custard pies, female underclothes and slightly zany captions...
...comedy ranks with the best funny novels done recently in the U.S.-that is, with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents and Peter De Vries's Comfort Me with Apples. But Condon is something more. He is a comedian who throws his custard pies in black anger, with intent to maim. His novels resemble (more accurately, are resembled by) Heller's Catch-22; the difference being that Condon's work is wildly plotted and Heller's is wildly plotless. The reaction of Condon's readers is usually either disgust...
Died. Harold Ogden ("Chic") Johnson, 66, junior member of the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...