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...appeared in vaudeville. Brooks never gives up; in his films he is apparently searching for a better balance between sight gags, one-liners, and developed routines. He has come close before--The Producers, his first film, is one of the funniest movies ever made, and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were outrageous parodies of two moribund film genres. But his last film, Silent Movie, was a bomb, although it reflected a willingness to do the unconventional. Silent Movie relied too much on slapstick (what do you expect from a movie with no dialogue?) and as a result became quite tedious...
Likewise, just as act two begins to drag, it is saved by Josh Kratka's walk-on as M. Purgon, Argan's doctor. Looking and acting like Dr. Frankenstein, Kratka devastated the audience while cursing Argan for refusing an enema. With his slapstick antics he stole the scene (and very possibly the show) from everyone...
Adds Cousy, the Celtics' superlative playmaker of old: "The problems of the Celtics are an accumulation of things I see across the board in the N.B.A.: no-cut contracts, big money. The system has created a Frankenstein, and he's finally turning on his maker. Younger players are very aware that they've got to put the ball in the hole, and if they do, it will result in substantial salary benefits. By the time they get to be professionals, it's difficult to convince them that basketball is a team sport and that guys play together...
MARRIED. Peter Boyle, 42, actor who played the monster in Young Frankenstein and Joe in Joe; and Loraine Alterman, 35, freelance rock journalist; he for the first time, she for the second; at the United Nations chapel in Manhattan...
...vendor. The smiles in the White House China Room came from Birthday Girl Amy Carter and 14 of her Washington schoolmates and chums. With Halloween shortly following Amy's tenth birthday party, the kiddie celebrants carved up pumpkins, gulped down hamburgers and punch, then settled back for a Frankenstein movie. Mom and Dad may have been anticipating colder days ahead, however. Their gift? A sled for Amy's winter visits to Camp David...