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...manager to talk him into doing a solo shot on Broadway. To the astonishment of everyone, including the star, it was an immediate smash. New York Times Critic Frank Rich wrote, "So sue me . . . Mason was very, very funny." The professionals closed ranks behind the comedian: Writer-Producer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) returned eight times, and Mel Brooks announced that "nobody makes me laugh harder." Joe Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival, went further. When Donald Moffat appeared as Falstaff in Henry IV, Papp instructed him to "do it the Jackie Mason...
...common fragment's identification--discovered through an international effort concentrated in the United States and Switzerland "shows that we are a lot closer to insects than we think, although this may offend some people, said William M. Gelbart, professor of Biology...
...film. Blame It on Rio, the viewers feel like tourists who have spent a day without suntan lotion under the scorching rays of Rio-completely burned. Unlike the cast, who blame Rio's sultry steaminess for their inane behavior, we can only blame co-writers Charles Peters and Larry Gelbart for their soap-opera like script and contrived plot...
While Victor roams the beaches and cruises nightclubs. Matthew begins an affair with Jennifer, the adolescent. Gelbart and Stevens must have thought that Rio exudes an atmosphere that sparks improbable romances. How else could one explain the affair between the sheepish Matthew and the sultry Jennifer. Since no legitimate explanation can be gleaned from the script, we are forced to believe Jennifer's explanation, when she tells Nicki "I've always had a crush on your father...
Donen and Producer-Co-Writer Gelbart (M*A*S*H) are, like Caine, men who know better than to do the shoddy, but they are too busy trying to prove they are hip guys, cool on the trail of the rapidly aging New Morality, to emulate his try for modest craftsmanship. It is dismaying to see them sell off comedy's right to social criticism in exchange for the chance to make soft-core porn. Perhaps that accounts for the dispirited and guilty air of a film that makes even Rio look ugly and cannot work up so much...