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...about doing." For one thing, she is determined now to spend more time with her children and grandchildren. "I keep thinking: 'Don't put it off; time goes so fast.' I've been given a second time around with my grandchildren, and they are the funniest little set of people I ever knew." Already she is looking forward to family gatherings at the ranch. "I know it will be changed, but I see them coming back for Christmas ..." Then she stops herself short. "I must be very careful about saying now that I will do this...
...cast. As Jack's intended Gwendolyn, Marie Kohler is delectable in both her appearance and her acting. Kohler's lines seem to roll effortlessly off her tongue with the haughty tone in which they were written to be delivered. Her counterpart, Algernon's Cecily, with whom she shares the funniest scene in the comedy, is not as stylish; Anne Ames, in her carriage and visage, mistakes movement for animation. Stephen Zinsser and Dennis Clearly, the two lovers, are both adequate to their tasks. They are languidly effete, though Zinsser is perhaps too effeminately so. And both appear to be enjoying...
Lavender Hill Mob. One of the funniest of British black comedies. Alec Guinness plays a meek employee of the Bank of England hatching a perfect plot to make off with a fortune. Watch for the Eiffel tower scene, the shadow puppets, and the riotous chase through the police academy...
Your Show of Shows of the 1950s is remembered, along with Ernie Kovacs' excursions beyond the pale, as the best and funniest work ever done for TV. Yet memory is a fun-house mirror There is always a nagging doubt when gazing into it: Were things really that good? Yes, they certainly were, as this mini-anthology resoundingly proves...
LOWELL HOUSE OPERA. Francis Poulenc's The Breasts of Tiresias, one of the funniest operas ever written. Caldwell Titcomb '47 calls it Tessie's Tits. And a concert version of Purcell's Indian Queen. Both Boston premieres...