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...however, a great day for oratory. Johnson, looking somewhat paunchy and preternaturally proud, said of his library, crammed with 31 million documents of his career: "It's all there-the history of our time, with the bark off." Nixon inadvertently got off the funniest line of the day: "As President Johnson was throwing me-er-showing me through the library . . ." Afterward, the Rev. George Davis of Washington, standing just in front of Vice President Agnew, offered a Spironian benediction rejoicing, among other things, that the University of Texas is "not yet frozen in the glacier of pseudo intellectualism...
...York State Supreme Court Justice Irving H. Saypol viewed the film, then rendered his verdict: on with the show. Director May vows an appeal to withdraw the film. If that fails, she wants her name removed from the credits. Fortunately, she cannot remove her face. It belongs to the funniest litigant in town...
...film: vignettes featuring Lou Jacobi as a past-throttled immigrant judge, Donald Sutherland as the pastor of the First Existentialist Church, and Alan Arkin as a neurotic police chief are all ill-timed. The first is prolonged to an ineffectively surreal note, the second (by far the funniest) turns into roundhouse farce, the last starts and ends hysterically...
Despite all this, Miller's Hamlet is interesting, because it is inventive. The acting is good, and the production, though it offends, never bores. Hamlet is undoubtedly the funniest thing Miller has done since Beyond the Fringe...
This Man Must Die. Claude Chabrol's most recent American-released film is perhaps not so tightly conceived as last year's La Femme Infidele -but it may also be this director's funniest thriller. As usual, the story deals with murder and the way murder changes complex human relationships. The color (particularly the late-Hitchcockesque blues) is more florid than ever, and there are two scenes that can only be described as amazing: one involving a dinner at a bourgeois French family's home, the other featuring the carving of a duck...