Word: funning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Climbing mountains and building houses for fun and credit...
...Viola, who spends almost the whole play disguised as the pageboy Cesario, we have Lynn Redgrave, attired in an aquamarine suit and sporting a head of short red hair. She brings a surprisingly forceful voice and a sure comic instinct. It is fun to watch her lapse from her assumed machismo--as when, on exclaiming of Olivia, "She loves me sure," she girlishly claps her hands over her face, or repeatedly swoons at the prospect of having to duel with Sir Andrew. Her performance perhaps owes something to her recent portrayal of another witty and manly woman, Shaw's Saint...
...obvious frothiness, Heaven Can Wait is a good escapist film, certainly a nice break from yet another wave of shock and disaster movies. While Beatty and company may not deliver Oscar-winning performances, they do provide something we all need a bit of now and then--good, old-fashioned fun...
...cruise to nowhere, getting there was not half the fun...
...ease before the camera and deliver their anecdotes with artificial gaiety. The famous naively show off their prized possessions - Old World antiques and Bernard Buffet paintings. A little of this amusement goes a long way; the cumulative effect of Person to Person is depressing. It is no fun to be reminded that the spiritual father of CBS Reports and 60 Minutes was also the progenitor of Rona Barrett - Interviews, Merv Griffin and Dinah...