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DIED. Marguerite Oswald, 73, mother of the presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who bitterly contested the Warren Commission's conclusion that her son had acted alone in shooting John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963; of cancer; in Fort Worth, Texas. A loquacious, self-dramatizing woman, she once proclaimed: "If you research the life of Jesus Christ, you find that you never did hear anything more about the mother of Jesus after he was crucified...
There were possibilities here. Bob Newhart plays the President of the United States; Madeline Kahn is his dipso wife, Gilda Radner his ditsy daughter. Superb comedians play supporting roles: Harvey Korman, Austin Pendleton, Bob Dishy, many more. And Buck Henry keeps threatening to prove himself a Renaissance man for this dark age of comedy. He has shown his talent in screenplays, magazine writing and, most convincingly, as a frequent guest on the Tonight show, where his deadpan surrealism is most at home. Henry may need collaborators-a Mike Nichols, a Johnny Carson-to spark his wry, reactive humor...
...must cope with a ridiculous scene about dreams, Kahn (who says about three words) and Radner (who goes to waste) hold up adequately under the assault of Henry's script but there is little they can do to salvage any humor or grace. As the ambassador to the U.N., Harvey Korman (who deserves a film of his own) stands out as particularly funny; perhaps he adlibbed his lines. The rest of the actors stagger around poor sets under the weight of very un-funny lines, looking like they'd rather be out ringing doorbells for the candidate of their choice...
Screenplay by Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer and Harvey Miller...
...Cambridge site slated for investigation is a Harvey St. plant owned and operated by Organic Chemicals, a division of the W.R. Grace Company...