Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matchmaker has at least one outright soliloquy in which he steps up to the footlights and blatantly tells the audience his thoughts and motivations, and at the end each of them gives his own idea of the moral of the play. Far from being awkward, Wilder's soliloquys present humor with a timing and characterization that are charming and often hilarious. The Matchmaker is, on the whole, an ingenious interweaving of slapstick and intellectual humor...
...through. "I do not believe what has been printed in the American press," said Delegation Leader Koziulia. "It's not true." Next day, boarding the Queen Elizabeth on his way home, Vlasov, smiling nervously, cracked: "As you see, I'm alive, and I'm in good humor." Added Russia's chief specialist in Stalinist baroque as he sailed off into the unknown: "It will all be straightened out in Moscow...
...Added Editor Tooill: "If you don't have a city or picture editor with imagination, get one. Fire all photographers who are in the business because they once needed a job-any kind of job -and hire genuine artists with fine appreciation of picture composition, drama, pathos and humor; men who can take a fast look at any picture chore and see instantly how this can be made different. These are likely to be expensive...
...Sheep Has Five Legs offers not only a variety of situations, but a great diversity in the types of humor which it employs. Sometimes the situations themselves are hysterical, but usually they are only mildly whimsical, with Fernandel himself supplying what humor there is. Throughout there is a very casual air; Director Henri Vernuil makes no attempt to create a laugh-per-minute tempo, with the result that none of the humor seems forced. In fact, one often has the feeling that humor is deliberately being withheld from him. At times the audience sits, wanting to laugh at Fernandel...
...possible objection to Viva Zapata is the apparent disorganization of plot. There are any number of places where the conclusion might logically follow. But viewed as an episodic adventure of the Mexican leader, Viva Zapata is a modern legend tied together with touches of action, humor, and, most important, Marlon Brando...