Word: impish
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From its earliest preview last December, this musical with magic found itself riddled with afflictions. Doug Henning, 35, may be America's premier illusionist, number his impish persona in eight TV specials and the longrunning 1974 extravaganza The Magic Show. But there are three things he cannot do onstage: sing, dance and act. To compensate, he cannily plays history's greatest wizard and surrounds himself with kinetic performers...
...Corvette. Newman jokes with Bethke on the victory stand, puts his arm around Joanne, smiles for the photographers, and then goes back to the trailer to rage. Later, very seriously, he apologizes for losing. He does not really cheer up until the awards dinner that night, when, looking as impish as Butch Cassidy, he succeeds in smuggling a camera bag full...
...impish sense of humor. To relieve the tension and tedium on location with Octopussy, Moore strolled through the hotel courtyard, into the swimming pool without breaking stride, and up and out again into the arms of his wife Luisa. He is engagingly self-deprecating about his career: "If I kept all my bad notices, I'd need two houses." But how does he bring his acting gifts to bear on the subtle character changes demanded of James Bond? "Sometimes I wear a white dinner jacket, sometimes a black...
...fluently than anyone else who ever lived. But he kept no journal and left no autobiography. There are, of course, his famous letters. He was always respectful and loving to the censorious Papa Leopold. For Maria Anna Thekla ("Bäsle"), the "little cousin" from Augsburg, he concocted an impish scatology ("Our arses shall be the symbol of our peacemaking!"), and his epistolary requests for from his generous friend Michael Puchberg read like a parody of abject pleading...
...undulations of plot-mistaken identities, furtive meetings in a forest haunted by impish spirits, a magic ride across the midsummer night sky, even an arrow that pierces the heart of one swain (Tony Roberts)-are meant to recall Shakespeare's Dream. Ingmar Bergman painted a lovely gloss on the subject in Smiles of a Summer Night. So why can't Allen have more fun with it? No film labeled a sex comedy should offer the truism "Marriage is the death of hope" four times, to be written on the blackboard of the moviegoer's mind. No Woody...