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...HELLO, DOLLY! is a twinkle-toed musical, thanks to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion's dancers and to a raffish, resourceful matchmaker, Carol Channing...
Weekend's underlying seriousness emerges in one crisp scene, in which an elderly couple stop in to say hello, and stay for lunch. As the aged innocents chatter amiably about the idyllic days of their own youth, the chasm between generations sets the young hosts fidgeting. One by one, guiltily, they drift away. The point is neatly stated. Too often, though, the film exploits the malaise it pretends to examine, and the drama becomes sociosexual cheesecake, an oversized slice of Danish blue. The camera records what the characters do, but offers few insights into the individuals or the society...
...HELLO, DOLLY! high-steps its musical way back to turn-of-the-century Manhattan. Gower Champion's dance company sets a brisk pace, but at the curtain it is a saucy saucer-eyed Carol Channing who just about steals the show...
...HELLO DOLLY! is an effusive, gladhanding, toe-bounding musical, set in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. Carol Channing is the superwoman, and she acts and sings like a cat that has swallowed...
...Dinh Tuong province, surveyed with satisfaction the peasants on either side peacefully tilling fields of green beans, tomatoes, melons. He waved at Vietnamese small fry, moonfaced boys and graceful schoolgirls in black sateen pants, who broke into excited smiles as the truck sped by and called out in English "hello hello" and "okay okay...