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Pure for sure, but deceptively simple. Each of her plays pries the audience's eyes open with an outrageous act, then makes them crinkle with laughter and moisten, just a bit, as Henley's daffy women reveal their desires and fears with slumber-party bravado. By the end...
DUCK YOU HEAD-LOWLA BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags...
Close Up #1; Opening--The screen suddenly lights up with an opening cartoon at the Brattle. It is a Daffy Duck cartoon. In 1955 the Brattle was a real theater, staging a lot of "classics" for the college crowd. Live actors. Live audiences. It has diminished somewhat.
Poor taste was the occasional price of all this live television. Early on the day of the wedding, Tom Brokaw noted that Diana "appears to have very large feet." Guest Commentator and Biographer Robert Lacey piped in that Charles "has very large ears." Brokaw at one point cracked that the...
DIED. Paul ("Daffy") Dean, 67, pitcher who helped lead the St. Louis Cardinals to the world championship in 1934, winning 19 games in the regular season and two more against the Detroit Tigers In the World Series; of a heart attack; in Springdale, Ark. An Arkansas farm boy whose career...