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...plainly better suited than Kadar for such tasks as negotiating more favorable trade arrangements with the West; Brutyo and Gaspar have obviously been picked to boost labor productivity. They will have no easy job. Goldbricking and moonlighting have become the nation's favorite sports. As a popular gag inquires, "Why are Hungarians so happy building socialism?" Answer: "It's easier than working...
...scene deserves special mention as it might even have been worthy of inclusion in Zazie. The gag is on Picnic when Jack and his girlfriend are spread out on the grass discussing life on the farm. Then the camera zooms upward to reveal the couple picnicking on the median strip of Park Avenue. It is easily the most imaginative moment in the movie...
...honest-to-gosh westerns go, Cat Ballon is disgraceful. As a shibboleth-shattering spoof, it dumps all the heroic traditions of horse opera into a gag bag, shakes thoroughly, and pulls out one of the year's jolliest surprises. Occasionally the fun seems sophomoric, and a few maladroit asides about red-white race relations give evidence that Cat might have been improved by more careful grooming. But the offenses are minor. What's good about the comedy is nigh irresistible...
...Hollywood Publicists' Guild invited Mrs. Crist to address a luncheon in Beverly Hills last month. If there was an outstretched hand, she not only disdained it; she bit it. Following Frank Sinatra's light and witty talk on his life and loves ("Must have had six gag writers," mused Crist), she plunged into an acerbic speech: "Back where I come from, Hollywood is a dirty word." Said an aggrieved 20th Century-Fox publicist: "She is a snide, supercilious, sour bitch. The thing she would hate most would be to be ignored." Said another: "If you want to attract...
...bill, but a 39-year-old nerve end who goes by the name of Soupy Sales. As a comedian, he is hardly believable even when seen: a pastiche nut in kook's clothing, whose act wanders in and out of plain idiocy, with every tired old slapstick gag in the joke book thrown in free. Among other things, he throws pies. And his fans were right there with him, saluting their hero with salvos of everything from teddy bears to a training...