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...cops and hardhats and a hound dirt-farmer--are sweating ignoramuses so whacked-out by work that they can't ever get it together. Radical politicos and Hell's Angels join paws in the headiest mix since PCPJ; even Orthodox Jews are ribbed mercilessly in the film's funniest scene: a blasphemous chase through a Bowery synagogue filled with sidecurled dogs...
There might be Dayak matrons in the forests of Borneo, Noel Coward once wrote, who would reduce you to helpless laughter. There might also be unspeakably hilarious female Pygmies in the jungles of the Congo. But in our civilization, he concluded, Bea Lillie must be the funniest woman alive...
...What is she like, personally? Unfortunately, the reader does not really know after fin ishing her autobiography, which tells too little too long. Unfortunately, too, her humorous style - or is it her collab orators'? - is only fitfully amusing in print. Beatrice Lillie is undoubtedly the funniest woman alive. But those who have not seen her will have to take it On faith. · Gerald Clarke
...this were all Brower had done, The Late Great Creature would be only one of the funniest tours de force of the past few years. But he has done more. With few illusions of ever returning to the great days of Saturday matinee catharsis, he illustrates the salutary nature of terror-its ability to exorcise fears of evil and death. He also toys gracefully with the paradox that fiction is capable of more truth than journalism. The truth about Brock Brower, an experienced freelance journalist, is that he must now be reckoned with as an extraordinarily capable novelist...
...actors must do a virtuoso job of speaking the couples so that they do not lapse into a sing-song monotony. The current Lowell House production of Le Misanthrope overcomes most of these difficulties with a competence which occasionally turns into a braven assurance, and lets some of the funniest lines ever written break through the cold classical form to tickle and outrage...