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...Baseball should be fun," Veeck insists, and he was good for a gag a minute. He staged a mock invasion from outer space...
Parents who scorn the "See, See, See" tedium of "basal readers" have long cherished the story about the first-grade teacher who steps out of her wrecked car to cry, "Oh, Oh, Oh-Damn, Damn, Damn." Now the gag has grown to an entire parody of the best-known reader, Fun with Dick and Jane. At this month's convention of the National Education Association, delegates happily passed around the anonymous spoof, Fun with Hamlet and His Friends. Excerpts...
...plot gets almost as impenetrable as a London fog: Mr. Hardwicke appears, only to be duly and ambiguously shot and killed by Mrs. Hardwicke. The ensuing trial scene could well have been edited out. But whenever the script gets draggy, Director Richard Quine perks things up with a sight gag-like Kim Novak tubbing with the nude serenity of the White Rock girl while the intruding Lemmon clicks his eyes open and shut at the speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler...
...except for therapeutic, theatrical or religious reasons, were clearly determined to make up for the loss of time. And no one was more astonished than Paris Couturier Givenchy, who started the whole thing in 1958 when he clapped wigs on his mannequins' heads. He thought it was a gag. Three years later, American women, slow to see the joke, finally saw the potential: brunettes, with only one life to lead, could turn blonde overnight; straight-haired women could have the curls they pinned for; a Cleopatra by day could let down her own long hair at night, without having...
...Exchange and replied that he had better things to do than to work in such a place. While visiting the U.N., he was asked by U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson whether he thought the whole Security Council could be transported to the moon. He quickly fell in with the Stevensonian gag. "Aren't there enough problems on earth for the council to solve?" he asked, and got a laugh...