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MORGAN! Two gifted young British actors, David Warner and Vanessa Redgrave, enliven a way-out comedy about an eccentric London painter who is destroyed by his love for his divorced wife, his mother, Karl Marx and King Kong...
Died. Al Ritz, 64, eldest of the Ritz Brothers who, with Second Brother Jimmy, played straight man to Rubber-faced Harry in 18 movies between 1936 and 1946 (Never a Dull Moment), continued to enliven nightclubs with a blend of lunatic dance and non sequitur patter; of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
Signs of Change. Everyone knew better. Isabel's mission was to enliven last week's Peronista rally scheduled for the 20th anniversary of Perón's rise to power-and thus brighten his fading image among the 3,000,000 or so Argentines who call themselves Peronistas. The old strongman's problem is that the people he once called his descamisados (shirt less ones) do not need him any more. Argentina's working class is now well organized, and looking for leadership among half a dozen tough young politicians and labor leaders. To many...
...organizer, who had heard about the Yale incident, was undaunted. "Too many of the Ivy League schools are apathetic about sports," he said. "I wanted to enliven the interest...
...world of American funeral customs that it occasionally scores a dead ringer. That chrome-plated butterball, Liberace, is hilariously on key as a casket salesman, peddling such optional extras as the standard-eternal or perpetual-eternal flames ("The standard burns only during visiting hours"). Milton Berle and Margaret Leighton enliven one interlude as a married pair squabbling over the remains of their dear departed, a dog named Arthur. Jonathan Winters succeeds outrageously as the mastermind of Whispering Glades, who wants to "get those stiffs off my property" and transform his real estate into a haven for senior citizens. His brainstorm...