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...hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly as an imitation Groucho; Lonny Price giggles and cavorts as a talking Harpo; Andrew Bloch is less derivative, but he is not distinctively anything else either. These performances have charm, but they bring to mind the inimitable pleasures of the originals...
This year's hottest items have been executioner and Ninja outfits. "Everyone asks for them. We've also sold zillions of blood capsules," Freed said as dozens of people milled about, examining such necessities as Groucho glasses, clown makeup, fake blood and skin-wigs...
...Sylvester's lisp or Pepe Le Pew's fetid French intensifies the viewer's ability to believe that these creatures are not only personalities but gifted movie stars. Bugs, even when dolled up in drag (a spectacle that always drives Elmer to embarrassments of lust), is Cagney plus Groucho. Pepe is a Charles Boyer with negative sex appeal. And whether in basic black or in period parts such as Robin Hood, Doorlock Holmes and the Scarlet Pumpernickel, Daffy is Everyman--well, Everyduck--on the worst day of his life. He is also the subtlest farceur in pictures...
...good. Once Kate and Petruchio are married, he begins a regimen of brainwashing as Groucho Marx might have done it, and by the end of the play Kate is "tamed," a seemingly docile and meek servant to Petruchio's will...
...underscored his humane intentions by insisting that the U.S. would retaliate against terrorist attacks only "if we can put our finger on" the groups specifically responsible. Said the President: "We are not going to simply kill some people to say, 'oh look, we got even.' " Mondale in turn quoted Groucho Marx as once asking, "Who do you believe, me or your own eyes?" What the American public could see with its own eyes in Lebanon, he said, was failure...