Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CACTUS FLOWER. France's humor, like its wine, travels well, since it is usually about a universal subject, sex. With Abe Burrows at the helm, this farce about a rouéish dentist whose idea of honesty is to tell his mistress he's married when he's not, has made a successful crossing. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson are on board...
...WITH YOU. In the Sycamore household, anything can happen-and certainly does. As captured by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart in 1936, the inspired madness of an everlasting free-spirited Manhattan family seems exquisitely refreshing to today's theatergoers-who may have forgotten that to be effective, humor need not be black...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...
...with Doug Kenny particularly funny as gay Wild Bill. Other physical aspects of the production deserve credit, and certainly the direction can only be hailed as superb. The fault, then, lies in the play itself. Like the little girl, it is often very good and very sharp, and its humor and satire strike home. Its main flaw, perhaps, is that the three central characters really don't amount to much. Time drags on the Desert, even if it is only an hour. And worst of all, the entire conception doesn't quite come off. The wild west notion is certainly...
Where Mayor Wagner could appreciate Mike Quill's typically Irish humor and trade jokes with him, Mayor Lindsay seems to have treated him with that cold distaste and haughty contempt that characterize recent New York Times editorials. "If he wants to talk to me so much," Mike Quill reportedly said after one of the few times Lindsay had bothered to enter the transit negotiations, "then why does he insist on looking over the top of my head?" It should hardly be necessary to point out which Mayor's approach has been the more successful in protecting the public interest...