Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daffodil. By last week, with both Blow-Up and Georgy Girl making boffo box office, the wave of acclaim had temporarily deposited both Redgrave girls in the U.S. Lynn was in Manhattan playing a dippy deb and bringing down the house night after night in the funniest show on Broadway: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Vanessa was in Hollywood, playing Queen Guinevere in her first cinemammoth: a $17 million movie version of Broadway's Camelot, in which she sings in a musky mezzo and looks like a rain-washed daffodil in a fire-green Sussex meadow. On April 10, they...
...When he turned his hand to filming a Broadway musical that smacked of burlesque that chitchat became more intense than ever. Now it appears he can do no wrong. A funny thing does happen on the way to that damn paper-maiche Forum and Lester's given us the funniest film of the season...
...nerve, as a whipped cur whining, wriggling, licking, leaking, crawling on its belly in pathetic need to please. Dorléac plays the wife as a bitch-kitty who doesn't know she is alive unless she is sinking her claws into some poor hound. Slander, in the funniest and most sinister performance of his long screen career, plays the gangster as an amiable, fair-minded monsler who is only loo happy to kick a dog if a kick is what the dog really wants. Al 58 This magnificent crum-bum comic looks like King Kong after 30 years...
...Forum plenty of sight-gags and a Burlesque flavor, the two prerequisites for getting boffs. But you laugh hardest when the pace is fastest, and it moves like the Marx Brothers whenever Steve Kaplan, Arthur Friedman, Robert Bush, (or any combination of them), are on stage. Kaplan is the funniest Roman of them all, and he plays the conniving lead, Pseudolus, with deadly timing, a rubber face, a protean voice, and a Stoic endurance of pratfalls. His is a virtuoso performance, and at one point his delivery of a line stops the show cold. When he sings, there is Merman...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Even though Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, The Knack) tries hard, he cannot spoil all of the fun in this hilarious burlesque based on the plays of Plautus. The funniest things happen to Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Jack Gilford, playing Pseudolus, Lycus and Hysterium, three dirty old men in dirty old Rome...