Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance to show a core of dignity beneath the crust of daffiness. Like most plays about nonconformity. Clowns fudges its theme by leaving its hero where it should find him, with a job, a girl and responsibilities. The play is very New Yorky in tone, but its high good humor knows no geography. In a uniformly superb cast, Jason Robards Jr., previously starred in somber roles, emerges as the new clown prince of Broadway...
...Y.M.C.A. basketball squad, but sputters sourprises like a bright, green Lemmon. Funnywoman Paula Prentiss, 23, is a Texas skyscraper (5 ft. 9¼ in.) who can look slim Jim in the eye without a periscope, and can come on and cut up like a junior-miss Rosalind Russell. If humor were measured in inches, Hutton and Prentiss would be the daffiest double in show business; since it isn't, they are merely the most promising young pair of romanticomedians currently in camerange. Last year they got off to a funning start in Where the Boys Are, then made...
...that seems to feel normal only when anxious, there is something a bit disturbing about all the wholesome good humor. The new bronze figures by Sculptor Chaim Gross at Manhattan's Forum Gallery appear to be having the time of their lives: mothers and children dance and embrace; acrobats tumble gaily over each other; jugglers fling their rings dexterously into the air. It takes a moment to shed the superstition that to be light-hearted is automatically to be lightweight...
...ingenuous, but she is also bright, forthright, candid and savvy. In conversation, she is an excellent listener. Her voice goes very small when she is lying. She has an exquisitely nutty sense of humor. When someone begins to tell her a joke about the papacy, she says: "I'm a good Catholic. I'm no supposed to listen. What is it?" For a Neapolitan, she has a remarkably subdued temper. "I get angry," she says, "once a year...
Lover Come Back. Gagman Stanley Shapiro has written a situation comedy as smooth as baby food, and Director Delbert Mann manages to strain some humor out of Rock Hudson and Doris...