Word: gorgeousity
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...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic antihero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925 and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
...directorial debut, Actor Alan Arkin (Luv, The Russians Are Coming) snake-dances the cast through this gorgeous farce and produces sight gags to match the early silent two-reelers. The players are perfect, and Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. Apart from turning Harold Pinter upside down and dispelling all the potential menace in laughter, Playwright Livings achieves one added distinction: he has done an anatomy of modern mass man. As the stereotype has it, this is the man who will be reduced to electronic button pushing and social homogeneity, tutored to spend his leisure time with Shakespeare and symphonies. Brose shows...
...reliance on his name, gibes at the campaign signs that "don't even carry his first name, don't carry the office he seeks, don't say vote, don't say Republican, don't say anything else. They've just got those four gorgeous letters...
...wife Mai, 24, and the airport crowd crushed forward for a better look as she stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still gorgeous. The Kys and the Marcos hit it off handsomely at the state banquet that night. After the usual exchange of medals, a four-man combo took over. And as President Marcos led Madame Ky, while Ky squired Imelda, Malacanang Palace rocked until 1 a.m. to the twist, the frug...
...people who inhabit this environment are no less pre-catching, thanks to the gorgeous costumes by Jane Greenwood. There has been no skimping here. But the swishness has not been distributed indiscriminately: Miss Greenwood has carefully suited all her garments to the essential personalities of their wearers...