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Morgan, you see, is a man who "acts out his fantasies," and his main fantasy is that he, Morgan, is an ape. This is a wonderful idea for a gag, and someday, perhaps, a very funny, light picture will be made out of it. David Warner, who plays Morgan in Morgan, should definitely star in that picture too, since his big-boned--affine, dammit--face and nimble movements are a perfect abstraction of apeness...
...work of its longtime (since 1938) President Robert Forman Six, a onetime merchant seaman who built the airline up from a puddle jumper. Six, 58, is a theatrical sort whose three marriages-to a California socialite, Actresses Ethel Merman and Audrey Meadows, his present wife-created a standard gag at Continental: "Bob is batting .500. Three for Six." With a flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits and sent them romping through hotel lobbies in a promotion...
Some curbstone quipster uttered the inevitable gag: "It must have been a Republican who complained." Still, it was awfully apt, as two blue-uniformed New York policemen piled out of a prowl car in front of Philanthropist Mary Lasker's Beekman Place town house at 1:05 in the morning. The complainant was an unidentified neighbor lady, whatever her politics, and she was finding it kind of hard to sleep, what with Dutch Adler's rhythms blaring from the open windows and most of the 110 partygoers thunderously doing all those modern dances. "Would you close a couple...
...Bedfellows," went the gag, "make strange politics." And so they did, with success so smashing that it surprised even Alabama's Governor George Wallace and his wife Lurleen...
...central character is Aunt Emily, cutting pictures from magazines, dictating taped letters to Tom, feigning deafness. And with Fran Ansley, the role assumes an even greater dimension. The wispy hair, the uncertain movements, the soft voice all register with the audience as perfect. While the action downstairs often approaches gag situations, and the action in Tom's room (like the embarrassing scene with girlfriend Ellen) is often tiresome, Aunt Emily and her world come across as real and sympathetic. When she and Tom come together at the end, we not only believe it, we want to believe...