Word: heironymus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perelman named his actor Basil Woolwine. He could just as well have called him Anthony Newley. In the latest case of lifelessness imitating artlessness, Newley continues his long love affair with Newley. Can Heironymus Merlcin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? "is a real ego trip," says the Director-Writer-Star. But it is less a trip than a misfired space shot blasting $1,250,000 to ashes...
...theatrical I-pieces, Stop the World and The Roar of the Greasepaint, Newley again presents himself as an overpainted everymannikin, this time named Heironymus Merkin,* who views his life as one long stag film...
...wise move. The script by Herman Raucher and Newley never graduates to the sophomoric. Female characters are given Ian Fleming labels with a touch of Li'l Abner: Polyester Poontang, Miss Maidenhead Fern, Trampolena Whambang and Miss Hope Climax. Jokes consist of lethal single entendres like "Heironymus lays them in the aisles," or Berle's remark as he rows a boat on a sandy beach: "I haven't passed water in three days." Between them, Newley rants some chants that are mislabeled songs, appears more naked than his victims, and plots along in the hope that some...
...Heironymus bummer began shooting on the isle of Malta. But "the editor of the Times of Malta started a campaign about the decadent film unit," he says. "Suddenly there were cops everywhere. They were pressuring me not to shoot the scene where I make love to Mercy in the grass. Eventually we did shoot it ... we had to go in the grass very deep." If he had trouble with the fuzz, it was even worse with some of the cast. "Berle is one of the great monsters of our time," he says. "You believe he's the Devil because...
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