Word: daffyness
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Needless to say, there hasn't been an ideal Lampoon for as long as anyone in the world can remember. The problem isn't the chronic lack of belly laughs in a typical issue; wisely deciding that Daffy Duck type humor is best left to the Brattle, Poonies have aimed...
Which came first, P. G. Wodehouse or the English butler? Wodehouse's publishers confess they are not even certain whether he is 87 years old and has written a million books, or a million years old and has written 87 books. Anyhow the figures strain the imagination-but not...
During the first two acts especially, Ann Jellicoe's daffy lines dogpaddled amid oceans of silence. Many sank without support, for little in this play is funny when taken out of context. Under Phillipa Lord's direction, there was little context.
Fitzwilly, the hero of this bit of family fodder, is a larcenous butler with a heart of pablum and a summa cum laude college degree. He keeps his daffy dowager boss (Edith Evans) in the chips by masterminding a ring of domestics who specialize in plundering New York department stores...
Arkin used the whole man to embody adolescent chutzpah; Newcomer Reni Santoni seems able to draw on only a pout here and a wiggled eyebrow there, which is far from enough. Shelley Winters and David Opatoshu contribute a pair of luridly overdrawn caricatures as the well-meaning parents who stand...