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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words) appears in the Review's current issue (New American Library, paperback; $1.25). Titled Civilization and Its Discontents, after Freud's famous essay on the conflict between the individual's instinctual urges and society's demands for restraint, the latest monologue is the freest, funniest, most touching-and terrifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Perils of Portnoy | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...PRODUCERS. For his first film, Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks weaves his gags around two canny Broadway con men who set out to make a fortune by staging a flop. The result, despite its bad moments, is some of the funniest American cinema comedy in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 10, 1968 | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...PRODUCERS. Two canny Broadway con men set out to make a fortune by staging a flop in this first film by Writer-Comedian Mel Brooks, which, despite a few bad moments, offers some of the funniest American cinema comedy in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 3, 1968 | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...production of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist exercise in British suburbia fails to get laughs that are usually pretty hard to avoid with this play. His actors, apparently unaware of much of the script's more subtle humor, work against the lines with an indiscriminate cuteness. Two of the funniest sequences, the exchange of coincidences between a married couple not sure they are married and the fireman's ridiculous tale of "the Headcold," fall dead. In the latter case, the actor actually reads the speech, stifling the spontaneity that is the crux of the joke. Most of what does arouse...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: One-Acters | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

WHRB will present a special--"Professional Wrestling," at 7:30 p.m. tonight featuring interviews with world champion Bruno Sanmartino and the lowest of all managers. Wild Red Berry. Said the WHRB commentator George Vary, "It's one of the funniest things I've ever heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sock It | 2/15/1968 | See Source »

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