Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring in Broadway's Black Comedy, Crawford, at 24, displays a plastic face and an elastic grace-comic credentials that should allow him to travel in faster and funnier company...
...final footage shows the U.S. cavalry riding to Bond's rescue, joined shortly by American Indians parachuting from planes and shouting "Geronimo!", the French Foreign Legion, and a Mack Sennett-style squadron of period policemen. This kind of keystone cop-out was done faster and funnier 34 years ago when the Marx Brothers made Duck Soup. But in those days comedies consisted of scenes and not herds...
...reproducing the grim masonry of the Tower of London. Steve Michales' direction was excellent, although at times a questionable rendering of Yeomen the way Gilbert had intended it. The G&S Players have a tradition of making the plays funnies and livelier than the recordings would indicate, sometimes funnier than they are. Michales' conception tended toward the slapstick and away from the sentimental element -- which, let's face it, is there...
...record, Pat Hawkins, who played Major Barbara on the Loeb mainstage last year, is beautiful and an extremely talented acress, by far the best in the show. Buddy Mear as the manager gives a restrained and frequently persuasive performance, though I've seen him funnier at dinner in Adams House. The Automobile Graveyard runs for an hour and five minutes, which isn't as long as it might have been in the hands of a less capable group of people...
...worry. Wilder has the sense not to drown The Fortune Cookie in good will. If one or two of his and I.A.L. Diamond's screenplays have been funnier over-all, there has still been none in which as high a percentage of the jokes came off. This is largely due to the efforts of two veteran comics: Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon...