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...acting and some performing which got some critical acclaim. Under the cherry Moon was a radical shift away from performing into acting. The movie enjoyed (suffered?) a very short run, although Prince and Jerome Benton came off as natural comedians (the "Wrecka Stow" scene was one of the funniest in recent cinematic history...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Purple Passion | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...ironic and malicious. But Playwright Lee Blessing has brought it off. His A Walk in the Woods is a work of passion and power with the ring of political truth. It is not only the best of the few dramas to reach Broadway this season, it is also the funniest comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: To Survive, Just Keep Talking A WALK IN THE WOODS | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...FUNNIEST SCENE STEALER The blind camel who upstaged Co-Stars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar, the $40 million-plus bust-of-the-year, and thereby proved that big salaries ($5 million apiece for Beatty and Hoffman) do not necessarily produce either big laughs or big bucks at the box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Most of '87 | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...Funniest of all is Blackstone, who always shines, whether aping Ellard's childlike movement and speech, inventing a gobbledygook foreign language, pretending to hoodoo Owen, or simply staring forward with his forlorn puppy eyes in feigned ignorance or injury. The Foreigner is essentially Blackstone's show, and he carries it off triumphantly. He and the rest of the cast really make the Shue...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Shue Business | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

...stage to achieve comic effects, especially when he leans over to peer over the over the top of his glasses. Donal Logue hammed up his role as a muscular hospital attendant and also raised some welcome chuckles. Frankly the characters in this play are so goofy already that the funniest performances result from hamming up the parts until they seem even goofier, which most of the cast succeeds in doing...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Basic Bunny | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

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