Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow workers has refused to shake his hand ever since the cartoonist shook le grand Charles's hand at a reception. "I think I'm the only one who draws him as if he were seeing himself," says TIM. "If there's humor in it, it's probably due to the complicity of the reader. There is also a bit of complicity on my part-putting myself in his skin. Indeed, there's so much complicity between us that there may even be a certain tenderness." Why draw De Gaulle as a conductor? The fact...
Sordi at 42 is a clever straightface comic rather like Peter Sellers served with oil and vinegar. But he cannot elude a tricky problem the picture poses : how to put Mars in motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror, like flint against steel, and hope that sparks will fly. Now and then they do, but usually they don't; and they don't because the humor is too mild, too healthy, too Italian. Director Comencini might as well be striking flint against ravioli...
Throughout this love vs. Great Neck conflict Da Silva shows himself as one of the richest actors on the American stage, capable of humor and sadness, broad power and fine detail. If In the Counting House does little else, it suggests the range of his abilities...
...Cummings. The characters are engaging people even if they are called Beverly Hillbillies, and this is one time 35 million people aren't wrong. Like ABC's I'm Dickens-He's Fenster. the show is supplying an apparent demand for straightforward, unsophisticated, skillfully performed humor. "It's my kind of corn." says Director Whorf-"right...
...downs, among them MacLaine and Mitchum. On Broadway, Anne Bancroft opened her veins and transfused the audience with hot red gouts of life and laughter; in the film, MacLaine turns on her talent like a spigot, and out comes a cooler flow of charm and humor. On Broadway, Henry Fonda was a mirror skillfully held to reflect the heroine; in the film, Mitchum is just another blank wall in her cold-water flat. Still and all, in the passage from Broadway to Hollywood, not too much of the Gibson has been spilled...