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...like them too, Browne has been able to confound categorization by constantly challenging it. He grew up in Los Angeles and then a little farther south in Orange County, second child of teachers. His father was also something of a jokester (the name Jackson was partly inspired by a gag in a Crosby-Hope-Lamour Road excursion) and a reasonably hot Dixieland jazz player. Orange County, most renowned as the seat of Disneyland and a stronghold of the John Birch Society, got Browne going-away. He was playing local hoote-nannies by his late teens. Before...
Inoue, who first established himself as a TV script and gag writer, combines the fecundity of Isaac Asimov, the antic regionalism of Erskine Caldwell and the solemn dedication of Inoue Proust. A lapsed Catholic, Inoue works in a monkish annex that he calls "the cockpit," next to his vast and growing collection of books. Except for dinner breaks with his wife of 21 years, he shuns company. "The world of imagination is my reality," he says. "I haven't left this house in a month." He refuses to attend parties, to undertake book tours or appear on TV interview...
...type F-1 hybrid, a variety grown throughout the country. Grown elsewhere, however, the same onion can bring tears to the eyes. Grown here, it is called sweet-and is. The former presidential press secretary contends it will not make "your nose run, your heart burn, or your sweetheart gag." (In fairness, it should be pointed out that other localities, like Walla Walla, Wash., also produce a sweet onion. Tests have shown that the sugar content in the Vidalia is highest; it seems to have something to do with the mild climate and the paucity of sulfur in the sandy...
...Michael Hfuhruhurr (for a sample of this movie's longest-running gag, try pronouncing that name aloud) has been under a strain. A desperately randy brain surgeon ("I had the top of her head off, but that's as far as it went"), he marries one of his patients, only to discover that Dolores (well played by Kathleen Turner) is not as nice as she looks. After six weeks, she still refuses to consummate their union, although when someone has just undergone Hfuhruhurr's specialty, the cranial screw-top procedure, one tends to believe her when...
This is the most assured and hilarious of the three Martin-Carl Reiner collaborations. There is something classically American about its monomaniacal pursuit of a gag every five seconds, characterization and redeeming social value be damned. The movie is rather like a Henny Youngman monologue combined with a National Lampoon spread. And it offers reassuring proof that the spirit of arrested adolescence lives on, at least for one more summer...