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...always been on top. His specialty is light comedy, and in it he has no peers. Summing up Grant's talent, Director Michael Curtiz once said, "Some men squeeze a line to death, Cary tickles it into life." But good light comedy is still little more than exquisite froth, and Cary Grant has never won an Academy Award. "I don't quite understand all the fuss over this so-called realism," he complains. "Is a garbage can any more realistic than Buckingham Palace...
...Five-Day Lover (Kingsley International), for about an hour and a half, is the year's funniest movie, a pouf of glittering froth from France. And then, as though the camera were slowly drawing back, the context of the comedy widens and the laughter dies in the spectator's belly as he perceives that the froth is bubbling from the lips of a corpse, from the sores of a rotting civilization. The effect is disturbing and profound. In his third feature film Director Philippe de Broca (The Love Game, The Joker) emerges as a narrow but brilliant comic...
...Froth on the Surface. But last week, at long last, De Gaulle decided that it was time to rally the nation's support in his own inimitable way. Out went invitations to another of those majestic press conferences in the Elysée Palace. Some 600 journalists showed up in the glittering Salle des Fétes at the appointed hour. As the tall, haughty figure stepped from behind the red curtain to take his seat before them, photographers' flashbulbs popped and reporters' pencils were poised. For an hour, De Gaulle answered questions with his characteristic, measured...
Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The fire of Racine's tragedy and the froth of Beaumarchais' farce evoked with sense and sensitivity...
...gags, composed by a staff of scripters apparently believe that to err is make him visibly gag. (Question: "How could she afford a mink on her salary?" Answer: "Overtime.") As for Leading Lady MacLaine, she aptly illustrates the old saying that too many kooks the froth, but even so, she is the funniest thing...