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...Happened On the Way to the Forum. One night when Zero Mostel hosted the Cavett show, he ran up and kissed the television camera lens, molested Paula Prentiss and danced with several old women in the audience. No time watching Zero could ever be called wasted--he is our funniest actor, and when he is harnessed properly, one of our best. This Richard Lester movie comes close to using him correctly, and besides, it has three other extremely talented comedians working for it: Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and a battered depleted Buster Keaton. It never gets into the high gear...
ROSENCRANTZ AND Guildenstern Are Dead is a play about death in more ways than one. Proceeding at the pace of a funeral dirge, its funniest lines are shrouded in sepulchral solemnity, while its supposedly climactic soliloquies are greeted, by a flurry of unsolicited chuckles. When Rosencrantz, after discovering Hamlet's forged letter ordering the pair's execution, sighs woefully, "To tell you the truth, I'm relieved," most of the audience chortles in agreement...
...concert, the languor and uncertainty that comes with getting it all before you have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork, a rock chorale dedicated to sanctifying women and fea turing the composer himself - singing like an androgynous elf, surrounded by hundreds of young girls, dressed in brid al gowns and crooning fervently...
...Wodehouse shared with countless millions of delighted readers his own slightly cockeyed, out-of-focus vision of the world in 70-odd novels, more than 300 short stories, 500 essays and articles, 40 or so plays and musicals and numerous movies-not to mention snippets of some of the funniest verse ever written in English. Many people grew up on Wodehouse and grew old on Wodehouse; his literary output, as reliable and regular as the seasons, never faltered or faded. Until he died of a heart attack in his home on Long Island, N.Y., at the age of 93, many...
...original film. He gives himself the freedom to make puns, play with sight gags, and concoct outrageously incongruent scenes--which is after all what he does best--without having to worry about the basics, which are already taken care of. This is not an altogether foolproof technique. The funniest scenes occur when Brooks leaves the real story behind and develops his own fantasies. When he is tinkering with the original scenes he tends to be over-literal and the humor becomes heavy-handed. For instance, he bungles the famous, pathetic scene in which the monster, hugging the little girl...