Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE AMERICA has as its theme the oppression of the Negro, and the reactions to this pressure-in humor, in cynicism, in anger and in sorrow-are as numerous as the dramatic sketches that recount them...
...Polonius, as Hume Cronyn sees him, is a buffoon, who turns most of his scenes with Hamlet into slapstick comedy. Cronyn wrings from the part all the humor that is there and a good deal, I think, that is not. He is Polonius from Hamlet's point of view, a "tedious old fool," without a trace of the skilled counselor who had been invaluable to Denmark...
DYLAN. A legendary actor, Alec Guin ness, plays a legendary poet, Dylan Thom as, during his punishing reading tours of the U.S. The drama is sustained by Dylan's sly humor, poetic insights, self-abrasive remorse and fierce, hurting battles with his wife...
...show some nervousness at his San Francisco press conference, but his sense of humor was still intact: "I could tell you that I have succumbed to the urging of many friends," he said, "but the truth is that this candidacy is a genuine draft-a draft inspired by the candidate himself." Answering serious questions, he insisted: "I've had a very warm relationship with President Johnson. There was absolutely no dissent with anything at the White House." Where would he get campaign money? "I'm very confident about my ability to get funds...
...there is a bright spot in the show, it's Alan Arkin's David. There's not much to the part, but Arkin never stops trying: he apes, he mimics, he double takes, and he double talks. Yet Arkin's humor is strictly in the Jerry Lewis vein. And how many adults like Lewis...