Word: funnyman
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...Miss Jane is never merely a symbol or a stereotype. Whether responding shyly to the kindness of a Union soldier, umpiring a baseball game or teasing her earnest young interviewer, she emerges as a human being full of surprising quirks and depths. John Korty, a director whose feature films (Funnyman, riverrun) have lacked emotional fire, here employs his unobtrusive and objective camera to excellent effect. Violence is seen as a constant element rather than a shocking intrusion on a black's existence. As such, its impact is all the more terrible. Finally, Cicely Tyson, whose muted fury...
...question-vast, inexorable, connected not to a mentality but to an appetite-are those of cliche and crude literary calculation. The man pulling the string that makes the cruel teeth clack together is First Novelist Peter Benchley, 33, son of Writer Nathaniel Benchley and a grandson of the great funnyman Robert Benchley...
...Woody Allen, 37, the bespectacled funnyman who has schlemieled his way through a series of hit movies including Play It Again, Sam, is in dead earnest about playing Dixieland jazz. Allen has just begun his second year as a regular Monday-night combo clarinetist at Michael's Pub, a Manhattan swingles' waterhole. It happens that Woody's next movie Sleeper is about a clarinet player, but Director Woody decided not to give himself the part...
...more like the appendix. His salary was a miserable $25 a week. After a false start as a collegian at New York University and City College, he went back to being a full-time funnyman-first for the late Herb Shriner (for $75 a week), then for Singer Pat Boone, Garry Moore, Art Carney and Sid Caesar. By the time he went to work for Caesar, Woody was making $1,500 a week. He had also acquired three new fields to mine for comedy: an apartment, an analyst, and a wife, Harlene Rosen...
Last week, after modeling his new, somewhat military bathrobe at a West Point preview, Funnyman Bob Hope, 67, put his show on the G.I. road for the 20th Christmas season. Hope's send-off included a Christmas supercard signed by President Nixon, Vice President Agnew, the Governors of the 50 states and all the members of Congress. He also got a holiday shopping assignment: he's to "buy the boys soft drinks" with a check for $8,000 from the Women's Christian Temperance Union. With an 87-member troupe including Actress Ursula Andress, Cincinnati Reds Catcher...