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...Young) is carrying on with mother's best friend (Anne Jackson). Brother (Joseph Hindy) and sister-in-law (Diane Keaton) are determined to divorce. The groom's father (Richard Castellano) explains he has never really been happy with his wife (Beatrice Arthur), while a bridesmaid (Marian Hailey) fights off the advances of a lecherous usher (Bob Dishy), and the bride's sister (Anne Meara) argues the virtues of feminine equality with her male-chauvinist husband (Harry Guardino...
...kaleidoscopic plot, adapted from Arthur Hailey's bestselling novel, is absurdly complex, and the cast of a dozen stars scurries about to service it. Burt Lancaster lumbers about as Mel Bakersfield, manager of an unnamed metropolitan airport who is faced with the usual night of danger, laughter, suspense and heartbreak. Burt's main problem of the moment is the jetliner stuck in the snow out there on No. 29 runway. As if that were not enough, another flight just has to land on that runway. Seems there is a mad bomber (Van Heflin) on board, who is threatening...
...which the zipper was completely missing and he ate half his grilled cheese sandwich before putting the second half, the chips and the carrot Curl into a brown paper sack and lighting a cigarette a Chesterfield and looking like Ezra Pound who was born not far from here in Hailey, Idaho. His name was Seth Morrison, born in Salt Lake in 1895, educated at Andover and Yale before going to the war in 1917 after which he returned to the West to be with his lumber trade and sawmills and remembrances of Latin Poetry and New Haven and Since...
...given his first birth, but an artist has to earn his second one. So arduous is this struggle, so embedded in a writer's marrow, that he almost always devotes one autobiographical work to it. Playwright Oliver Hailey's Who's Happy Now? may not be autobiographical, but it has the indelible sound of private experience. His play belongs among the most perceptive portrayals of the son-father relationship that have been brought to the stage. Its special quality is that it is an Oedipal farce, zany, effervescently comic and full of as many crazy laughs...
...setting and the mood are Saroyanesque, an East Texas small-town bar. The time is the '40s and '50s, as the hero (Ken Kercheval) grows from boyhood to manhood. The father claims that he hates the boy, which is only half true. Not the least of Hailey's sound intuitions is the recognition that love and hate are not opposites but twins. The father is a butcher. He is violent, sentimental, and fiercely masculine. He has kept a one-fisted grip on two women for 20 years, his wife (Teresa Wright) and his mistress, played...