Word: groucho
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...timing and effortless whimsy that can fracture a guest as well as an audience. Once Norman Mailer teased Cavett about Rival David Frost. When Mailer rose a moment later, a book fell from his pocket. Quipped Cavett: "You dropped your copy of Dale Carnegie." Last week, after Cavett Idol Groucho Marx had trespassed repeatedly on Truman Capote's attempts to complete a sentence, Cavett asked Groucho: "Do you have the feeling Truman is dominating this conversation?" The rebuke silenced Groucho for only five seconds. Even when he is off the air, Cavett is on. To a waitress who brings...
...Italo Calvino introduced to American readers in 1968 wore the mask of a metaphysical clown. Cosmicomics was rare science fiction-half Borges, half Groucho Marx-impishly mythologizing how the universe began. Inventing a cartoon-like character named Qfwfq and a supporting cast headed by a galaxy-Eve. Mrs. Vhd Vhd Calvino winged it with superb airiness -a Peter Pan for the space...
...Schulz, the nation's humorists have operated as a tolerated underground culture. They have conspired to create a fantasy world where good Americans could be as shiftless as Charlie Chaplin's tramp, as cynical as W.C. Fields never-giving-a-sucker-an-even-break, as lecherous as Groucho Marx prowling a bedroom. American humorists, in other words, have kept American puritans sane and alive...
Archie Smith plays the father. Nat Miller, like a suddenly-animated wooden Indian trying to imitate Groucho Marx. Kay Doubleday as the mother would make Mrs. Portnoy cringe, she is so solicitous. Sid Davis, as the uncle of the central character, Richard, should come across as a lovable man condemned by his own weakness from ever obtaining the woman he loves. George Ede makes him the back-slapping traveling salesman of a dozen stale farmer's daughter jokes...
Pinning down a Barthelme story is obviously a surrealistic experience -rather like trying to explain a Groucho Marx joke to someone who has never heard of Groucho Marx. In desperation Barthelme critics sometimes resort to the comparison gambit, frantically coupling their man with a host of others in the course of one review. The catalogue ranges from Dickens, Swift and Joyce to Kafka, Nabokov and Henry Miller...