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...comic-strip artists, psychologists, educators and others who take the comics fairly seriously, seeking to find out what was afoot in the land of the funnies. The final choice for cover treatment fell to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, which stands out among the newer strips as probably the funniest and certainly the most existential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 9, 1965 | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...wife starts pawing the earth in his vicinity. She suggests that they meet at the country hotel where she always has her hair done. "Well, you're faithful to your hairdresser," Tognazzi shrugs philosophically, and takes up the challenge as best he can. In the film's funniest scene he drives home from the as signation at great peril, checking his throat for bruises in the rear-view mirror, trying to rid himself of telltale perfume by blowing smoke into his clothes and flailing madly behind the wheel of his open convertible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hunting Horns | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

Last week's Crosby was the funniest yet. "Isn't this just great?" crooned the Groaner. "Isn't this just wonderful?"-as a 50-m.p.h. winter gale whipped across California's Monterey Peninsula. One TV tower collapsed completely, and the rest were shaking so badly that the players looked as though they were dancing the Tahitian hula on millions of home TV screens. ("Sorry, folks," the announcer apologized. "We just can't hold the cameras steady.") Arnie Palmer winced with pain as a cloud of sand from the bunkers blew into his eyes. Tony Lema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: $84,500 Worth of Practicality | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...comparatively serious tone of the rest of Him. One sketch has a side-walk hawker selling a miracle cure for a disease called "cinderella." Another, an off-color parody of the "Frankie and Johnnie" legend, is interrupted by a representative of the Society for the Contraception of Vice. The funniest and least subdued skit takes place at "the Old Howard's conception of a Roman Villa," where homosexuality and Mussolini are jointly braised on Cummings' spit; an Ethiopian crap-shooter remarks, "If daze anything worse dan Christians, it certainly am peddyrasts...

Author: By E.e. Leach, | Title: Him | 12/5/1964 | See Source »

TOPKAPI. Men, money and emeralds send Melina Mercouri on a merry chase through Istanbul in Director Jules Dassin's fastest, funniest caper since Rififi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 27, 1964 | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

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