Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hatches a plot that eventually gets Dad done in, Susan-ravaged, and Susan's mom cut up like so much kindling. This exercise in Petit Guignol, called Twisted Nerve, has all the suspense of a marshmallow roast, and struggles to make itself more plausible by adding some genetic gibberish about chromosomal damage. The film even suggests that Mongolism and criminal behavior are somehow connected, an unconscionable lapse of taste that has justly outraged the National Association for Retarded Children, which has demanded that the producers add a postfactum disclaimer. It is doubtful that enough people will see Twisted Nerve...
...POOH PLAYERS are back, offering their blasphemous rendition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, each made the more blasphemous by this company's astonishing capacity for off-the-cuff stage gibberish. The few children in attendance continue to despite the Pooh Players and all they stand for, but the adults sit by in tolerant amusement. Lewis Carroll would make mincemeat of his grave...
...second half of When the Living Gets Better features a sound track which is positively creative, and need not apologize for being only quasi-synchronized. Songs blip for an ugly instant as Sally primps. Two songs run on top of each other in distinct gibberish as she smiles at her date. The soundtrack is used by Waletzky to tell us what the pictures alone only suggest. Near the end, sound pops into sync with the click of a light-switch, grabbing our attention for the brief, affirmative finale...
There, now that's what I think it's all about. Some, in fact many, may differ. Even among my peers there are those who might have phrased it differently, who don't jive to this gibberish. But who are they to tell me what...
There, now that's what I think it's all about. Some, in fact many, may differ. Even among my peers there are those who might have phrased it differently, who don't jive to this gibberish. But who are they to tell me what...