Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After long seasons of Big Rhoda jokes, the star finally put her weight -and her foot-down. Viewers had long suspected that underneath the avoirdupois there was a slim beauty screaming to get out. Now she emerged funnier than ever-and too big to stay put. Thus Rhoda was born...
...Stop [1956]. Marilyn Monroe was better used as a comedienne than sex star, and she was rarely funnier than in this adaptation of William Inge's play. Ch. 56, 2 p.m. Color, 2 hours...
...also required to voice-over a narration that weekly spells out whatever moral Elsa's behavior has pointed up. On these occasions, one cannot help wishing that Mr. Ed, TV's departed talking horse, could somehow have been worked into the series. He was much better-and funnier-at this sort of thing than any of his human successors have ever been...
...Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally, he turns around and wins it when he realizes what a victory will do for his fellow cons' self-esteem and dignity...
...taken out of circulation for a while because of the re-release of Animal Crackers, and if you haven't seen either of these yet and you need some cheering up, head over to the Park Sq. Cinema. Both films are classics, and the only movies that are any funnier are other Marx Bros. comedies...