Word: farceur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everywhere. This is particularly hard on Andrews, who is Mrs. Edwards, and is here called upon mostly to be long-suffering, which she does with her customary cheery professionalism, but with small chance of large rewards. Most of the good material is left to Moore, who is a gifted farceur and very brave about soldiering through the editorials. He is not a forceful comedian, but he is opportunistic, intelligent and, occasionally, touchingly vulnerable. This film could provide him the chance, finally, to find the large audience he deserves...
...Paris' routine is as hollow as Philip Marlowe's: the dismal bedsitter, the bottle of whisky, the nagging creditors. What distinguishes his adventures, of which A Comedian Dies is the fifth, is the author's wry observations of Britain's entertainment milieu. Brett has a farceur's eye for crooked agents and egomaniac stars, for performers elbowing their way up or trying to take the slide back down gracefully, for network nitwits, for creative geniuses unsung by anyone but themselves...
...Tony Randall Show on ABC brings back The Odd Couple farceur in the role of a widowed judge in Philadelphia. The tired story line-the two motherless kids advising Dad on his sex life, an abrasive English housekeeper (played by the admirable Rachel Roberts)-is a tenuous handle for Randall...
Going Ape by Nick Hall. Five doors do not a Feydeau farce make. But in this world premiére, Playwright Nick Hall, 30, must be credited with the right source of inspiration. One wishes he had stuck more tenaciously to the great French farceur and depended less on college humor and parodies of old '40s movies. However, Going Ape is truly zany. The hero, Rupert Yaeggi (Dennis Michaels), is a kind of Candide in reverse. He has decided that this is the worst of all possible worlds, and he has opted to commit suicide...
...About Mintz. On the basis of last year's successful Teeth of Mons Herbert, I can recommend this unreservedly. Phil LaZebnik is a farceur of great range, and Mintz--if it's half as good as the people working on it have told everyone--should be excellent. Don't expect anything to shed any light on serious questions of birth, copulation or death, but this might be the intellectual's alternative to the Pudding Show anyway, since you can hardly avoid seeing at least one farce this week. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at the Agassiz...