Word: gildas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show. Better still, the Lampoon has nurtured a new generation of comic talent. Many of the creators of NBC's Saturday Night Live, including Michael O'Donoghue, the Chief Writer, are Lampoon alumni. That show's Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Players Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray first hit the big time in Lampoon revues...
...this sweet-spirited but misconceived film, she must play a bratty child who evolves into an 18-year-old bride by the final credits. She loses all the way around. When acting younger than her age, Tatum all too consciously plays a role; both Lily Tomlin and Gilda Radner can impersonate little girls better than she can. As an 18-year-old, Tatum is ridiculous. Her body has matured a bit, but she still has a way to go before she can pass for a sexually aware young woman. With her cherubic face and light voice, she even lacks Brooke...
...Gilda. Done in 1946 by King Vidor, "Gilda" is the best of the "film noir" style that emphasized the dark side of the American character in the climate of national disillusionment following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford...
...that suggests not so much Pisa but Babel and, at times, the land of Hansel and Gretel. At the start it represents the palace of the Duke of Mantua. For the second scene it becomes the house where the jester Rigoletto has hidden, or so he thinks, his daughter Gilda from a menacing outside world. And so on. The tower is, alas, not a very arrest ing centerpiece, especially against Designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch's eye-of-the-hurricane backdrops. Worse, it is shoved too close to the apron. Events that take place in front of the tower seem cloaked...
...have been his growing celebrity. In a show that insisted on being a collaboration of equals, Chevy was singled out fast. The other Not Ready For Prime Timers got sick of being asked questions like, "Hey, you're on 'Chevy Chase,' right?" Jokes Comedienne Gilda Radner: "It even reached a point where my own mother would ask me what Chevy had for dinner, not what I had. Then when he got really famous, she began to doubt that I really knew...