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...hammered at his issues, Reagan's following grew. His acting experience served him well. He was punchier, funnier, more dramatic than Ford, yet at the same time he seemed cooler, more professional and dignified than the President. Unlike Ford, he usually refused to kiss babies or buss baton twirlers. Last week in Nebraska and Louisiana, he stood back as enthusiasts held up infants for a smooch, explaining: "I come in contact with so many people in the course of a day, and there are so many strange bugs going around." Groused a disappointed father in Shreveport: "Damn...
...mental illnesses to suit the moment. Charles Weinstein, as the mayor's conniving son who gives up his fiancee to the dragon in return for a position as private secretary, may overdo his sliminess somewhat; but fairy tales deal in black-and-white characters, and outrageously villanous villains are funnier than more complex ones. And, since every fairy tale must have a heroine, Elsa is pure, chaste and loving. Cindy Cardon is adequate in the role, although she sometimes adds a touch of bitchiness that conflicts oddly with the virtue she is supposed to represent...
...those are undergraduates. The numbers that get the biggest laughs and seem to ring the truest are, not surprisingly, the ones that involve Harvard in-jokes. "Dean Epps' Love Song" by Philip LaZebnik, a mishmash of double talk that praises love as a viable alternative, somehow sounds funnier than it really is, but "Caesar's Wife" by Peter Homans and Bill Johnsen, which has a whining Sissela Bok complaining about all those cocktail parties and privately longing to be married to "a Brutus," is right on the mark. "Tarts of the Arts"--by Paul Rosenberg and Ted Trimble--takes...
Lancelot du Lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Two very different treatments of the Arthurian legend, although both are concerned with deromanticizing the Once and Future King. Monty Python is funnier. Bresson's film, savaged by the critics, has some good moments and some scenes of positively unearthly beauty...
...cartoons are no longer classics - but oddly enough, they are funnier. The younger contributors, from John Updike to Woody Allen, have tended to displace rather than replace their predecessors...