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...stock of sherry in the cellar and becomes a befuddled wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process of growing up, Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector's daughter or the gardener's. Eventually, like Huck Finn, Penrod and Holden Caulfield, all of whom he resembles, Josh painfully squirms through the gap in the hedge that separates adolescence from manhood...
...responsible for this repertory of parody is Peter Schickele, a chubby, flop-haired imp of 32, who has done for classical music what Spike Jones did for pop. Since Schickele started his P.D.Q. Bach concerts in New York City three years ago, the baroque revival has never been the same. What makes his satire so devastating is that even his broadest buffoonery is backed by thorough knowledge and fine musicianship; he is an experienced "serious" composer who took a degree at Juilliard and studied with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud...
...PRODUCERS. For his first film, Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks weaves his gags around two canny Broadway con men who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop. The result, despite its bad moments, is some of the funniest American cinema comedy in years...
...PRODUCERS. Two canny Broadway con men set out to make a fortune by staging a flop in this first film by Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks, which, despite a few bad moments, offers some of the funniest American cinema comedy in years...
Since April Fool's Day, the anti-war movement has been running out of gas. Something called the "Academic Day of Conscience" April 15 was an utter flop--only 70 students showed up at Memorial Church for the ceremonies. Only six per cent of the Harvard Faculty could be persuaded to sign a moderately-worded statement backing draft resisters in an o so legal way. And at the latest Boston draft card turn-in, only 20 people turned...