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...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Probably the funniest people on Broadway...
...Absent Minded Professor (Buena Vista). Walt Disney, who ran $1,500,000 in the red last year, seems all set to laugh off his losses. For the past month he has been packing them in with 101 Dalmatians, the funniest feature-length cartoon he has ever made. And in this live-action picture he presents the season's kookiest science-fiction farce...
Starts Sunday: A lemon from Hollywood stars the actor of the same name and a fallen teen-idol, Rickie Nelson. It's called THE WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY, and the title, believe you us, contains the funniest gag of the whole piece. Co-featured is a singularily unconvincing thriller, SECRET OF THE PURPLE REEF...
TELEPIX: The latter two-thirds of Marcel Pagnol's epic trilogy of the 1930's is currently if all too briefly on view. FANNY will run through March 8. CESAR (which starts the 9th) will run till March 15. In toto, these are three of the funniest pictures ever made; Raimu, the French Charlie Chaplin, excels in what in retrospect must be called his greatest role. Your last chance in seven years. Evenings...
Benchley was associated with the New Yorker, and as MacDonald points out, so also were nearly all the good parodists of this century: Peter de Vries, Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan, and E. B. White. Their victims' language is pleasantly familiar, and for that modern parodies seem the funniest. One probably has to be a kind of literary snob to appreciate parody anyway, and although we are often told solemnly that parody must be funny in itself and not just because it mocks something, it is very satisfying to recognise a small and particular bit of cleverness. Of the contemporary rash...