Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their fullest realization of their art. Besides the usual virtues of closely integrated book lyrics, and score, Pal Joey offers a singularly compelling study of an individual situation, the depths of which was not approached until Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Although the title of John O'Hara's book leads us to focus our attention on Joey, the significance of the work lies in the eventual illumination that the captivating but amoral and egocentric hero brings to those around him. Joey never seems subject to the ideal of constancy which the romantic mind pursues all the more diligently...
...Laugh, O'Hara...
...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
...Laugh, O'Hara...
...Laugh, O'Hara...