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...than being wise. When Woodward announces that she has preserved her beauty as a sacred obligation to her public, Newman reveals that she has had a dozen face-lifts and is so full of wax that she doesn't dare get close to a fireplace. Newman's funniest conceit, in every sense, is an idea to package frozen "Celebrity Seed" so that every woman in America can have a baby by her favorite actor, singer, TV panelist, "or in certain isolated instances, dress designer." That's what Baby needs -a playwright father...
Dustin Hoffman, expertly leading the light-hearted approach to Chekhov as the tipsy doctor, is the funniest figure in the play. John Lasell manages to capitalize on Platonov's absurdities without making his tragic side incongruous. And Penelope Laughton portrays the simple naivete of Platonov's wife with great subtlety. Unfortunately, the roles of the young fop and the widow's stepson are somewhat overinflated by David Bouvier and Joseph O'Sullivan. And Betsy White, as the widow, proposes sin to Platonov like a lenient mother trying to sell her children on brushing after every meal...
HOLLYWOOD, March 23--Peter Lorre, on screen a master of horror but off screen one of the gentlest and funniest of men, was found dead today of an apparent stroke...
...phrase, his small ironies and pointed understatements, one feels that Cheever is not always in control of his own voice. Some of his mannerisms--a tendency to adopt a coyly melodramatic tone, for example--eventually become obtrusive. When he attempts satire, the element of fantasy that distinguishes his funniest passages becomes mere grotesqueness. On the other hand, his excesses of sentimentality are almost embarrassing; even readers who do not mind his beginning the novel on a snowy Christmas Eve may object to his ending it, beneath a haze of pity and brotherly love, in the same manner...
...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-Italian films in years offers Vittorio Gassman as a flashy Roman playboy whose jetaway pace spells disaster for a shy young law student...