Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eagle blames the new tame look in sideshows on that old folk-culture killer, television. People are wiser (and perhaps sadder too) and won't take bamboozling with the good humor of a more innocent time. Says the Last of the Great Carny Talkers, with monumental sadness: "There just isn't any such thing as a rube or a hick these days...
...picture, based on a play by Shelagh Delaney, a Lancashire bus driver's daughter who was 18 when she wrote it, is as good as the best. In her first film script, touched up by Director Tony Richardson, the angry young ma'am displays dramatic drive, concussive humor, a barmaid's ear for dialogue, a slum kitten's shrewdness about people and motives, a melancholy flair for the poetry of wasted lives...
...used-car salesman, Actor Stephens plays to panting perfection the sort of sly young fox who figures that if he chases the chickens hard enough he may get a goose. In the homosexual, Actor Melvin finds valor, humor, ethos, pathos, and a touching reminder that men who become women sometimes become good women. With the mother, Actress Bryan accomplishes a masterpiece of caricature. Voice like a firebell, hair like fried sash-cord, face notched with conquests like a sheriff's six gun, she is the wiggling, giggling, jiggling image of the beery...
...very, very good; when he was bad, he could be awful. This collection, by concentrating on Lardner rarities, too often fails to distinguish between the two, could better have been an anthology of Lardner's best for an era that could well profit from his trenchant humor...
Seething a Kid. Much of this has the makings of dreadful humor. In The Brother, O'Brien has turned loose a memorably monstrous archetypal entrepreneur who, if he could turn a pennyworth of profit, would not only seethe a kid in its mother's milk but invite the dam to dine on it. What in the end spoils the fun is that O'Brien does not keep the goings on entirely in the cartoon world of outrageous literary parody and exaggeration where death, as Brendan Behan puts it, has lost its "sting-aling-aling." Grimy realism crops...