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Like most Chayefsky plots, the story of Affair is thin. Debbie Reynolds and her schoolteacher beau (Rod Taylor) plan a quiet, quick marriage in order to take advantage of a free auto trip to California for their honeymoon. Her careworn parents (Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine) agree-until the neighbor start talking ("Why so sudden? Is she in trouble?"). Then the parents meet their prospective in-laws, who relate, down to the last insufferable penny, how many thousands they spent in properly marrying off their own daughters. Bette Davis digs in her heels, insists that Debbie get a marriage...
...proposition: that Bob move in as Sanders' ghost artist while she and the cartoonist are off on their honeymoon. Additional comedy is supplied by Pearl Bailey, who doubles as narrator and songbird when she is not pretending to be Sanders' maid, as well as by a small boy (Jerry Mathers) and a large shaggy dog. With this much to go on, Hope sets about rewinning Eva Marie with all the tested ingredients of farce, from pratfalls to bedroom scenes to hurry-up exits and entrances. Everything winds up in a final bedlam as Cartoonist Sanders' apartment...
What makes the whole business maddening, Allen observes, is that no one-from Aristotle to Freud-has yet worked out a satisfactory definition of humor. Allen concludes that the relationship of the TV fan to his favorite comic is a little like falling in love. Within six months the honeymoon is over. After a year, the fan begins to mutter critical asides. In two years he may switch to another channel. Allen's purpose in writing his book is to make "an examination and somewhat relaxed analysis of television humor"; his major concern is to give his readers...
...Everybody," bawled A. B. Chandler with cheerful immodesty while stumping across Kentucky last fall, "loves ol' Happy." When Kentuckians responded by electing him governor, it looked as though ol' Happy had things sized up about right. Last week the honeymoon ended. Unloving Kentucky Democrats unmercifully dropped Happy's hand-picked candidate for the Democratic senatorial nomination, ex-Representative Joseph B. Bates, 62. Winner by a resounding plurality of 81,000: Senator Earle C. Clements, the incumbent whose political career Chandler had promised...
...White Sheik is a mercilessly funny exploitation of these magazines. Wanda, one of the exploitees, has been reading all the "fumetti" for years, but of all the heroes, the White Sheik is her favorite. On her honeymoon in Rome with a healthy Italian villager, she takes off in search of the White Sheik to whom she has already written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes...