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Irma La Douce. Director Billy Wilder maintains that prostitution can be fun. and Shirley MacLaine goes along with the gag. Jack Lemmon. as her Rover Boy lover boy, mugs magnificently as he bumbles about his business of trying to make Shirley go straight...
...create a "homogeneous" Cabinet of kindred spirits dedicated to his three-year stabilization plan. Plane traffic in and out of Brasília was so heavy that the country's four major airlines set up temporary counters in the lobby of the Congress building, and as a gag Deputies went around greeting each other, "Hello, Mr. Minister." Goulart himself flew off to Rio for two days to confer with army generals and politicians...
Both crewmen and superiors are forever saying things to Kennedy that 20 years later they probably wish they had not. "You got a brain like a seed pearl," splutters one sailor after Lieut, (j.g.) Kennedy has accidentally dumped a bucket of dirty water over him. And the running gag all through PT 109 is oh-boy-think-of-talking-like-that-to-the-President-of-the-U.S. But nothing upsets Kennedy's dedication to duty, and sometimes he sounds as if he were rehearsing an inaugural address at some happier future time. "Think these men will...
...viewer tuning in The Dick Van Dyke Show. He has heard that it's pretty funny. After all, it has just won three Emmy awards as the funniest, best-written and best-directed humor show on television. He knows from just general absorption that Van Dyke plays a gag writer married to a delicious-looking girl played by Mary Tyler Moore. Van Dyke and Moore are arriving at a literary cocktail party. "Do you want to duck out right now," says he to her, "and take in a movie?" The laughter that follows this line is deafening...
Jumping Juror. The laughter, since it comes mainly out of the can, may be irritating, but the characters are not-and therein hides the secret of a successful TV series. The regulars tune in not for the latest witticisms of Gag Writer Rob Petrie, but to watch Dick Van Dyke, a clean-cut fellow with a frog in his throat. He looks believable. He isn't aggressively glamorous or excessively cute. He is a pretty bright guy whose brain is sometimes a ball of thumbs, and he is married to an American icon: the steady, dependable, reliable, beautiful, clean...