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Director Reisz sustains the free-flowing tone with cinematic stunt work. He freezes the action, speeds it up, reveals the texture of Morgan's fancies by inserting film clips of Tarzan and of the original King Kong roaring approval at Fay Wray. The film's funniest scenes, though, are the earthy encounters between Morgan and his dear Ma (Irene Handl), a dotty old Red square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal...
...subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money. He, soon guessing the truth, is delighted. His efforts to squeeze as much money as he can out of the officials, and as much affection as he can out of the mayor's wife and daughter, provide the funniest moments in the play...
...than its material, which takes its style from the sappy smile of Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing the coach, and breathlessly spieling, World Almanac-slye: "This is only the third...
SHAKESPEARE: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (3 LPs; RCA Victor). In Shakespeare's funniest social comedy, everything depends on the speed and sparkle of the witty duels between Beatrice and Benedick, played here by two fast-rising British stars, Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, whose voices are whirling kaleidoscopes. That young theatrical iconoclast, Franco Zeffirelli (creator of a successful beatnik Hamlet), directed this National Theater of Britain production, which one critic called as lurid and animated as a Superman comic. The performance on the recording is robust but never bumptious...
...into Phu Bai in a Jeep, and an assembly line was soon set up. One by one the village's toddlers were dunked, scrubbed and rinsed (twice) and finally toweled off. By the time the job was done, the villagers had clearly concluded that it was the finest, funniest show ever staged in Phu Bai-and public health had taken one more small step forward in Viet...