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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home is the puny Hollywood farce that last month scored its first and only victory by beating the University of Notre Dame in a legal hassle over whether it damages that school's good name (TIME, Dec. 18). It remains a brash and dreary jape, climaxed by a sequence in which Notre Dame's football squad flies off to a mythical Middle Eastern sheikdom to cavort with harem houris, then takes the field against an Arab eleven coached by a wandering Jewish U-2 pilot...
...Billy Wilder and his favorite collaborator, Writer I.A.L. Diamond, can be traced in a curve that peaked in such frantic, funny, wickedly knowing comedies as Some Like It Hot and The Apartment, plunged downward in Irma La Douce, and now lands in the murk of Kiss Me, Stupid, a jape that seems to have scraped its blue-black humor off the floor of a honky-tonk nightclub...
...usual, Buchwald was only kidding. But his column, syndicated in 207 newspapers, reaches millions of readers, not all of whom saw through his whimsical jape. Soon newspapers all over were fielding telephone calls from anxious subscribers seeking assurance that there really was a J. Edgar Hoover, or angrily offering to prove Buchwald wrong. "Hundreds took Buchwald seriously, and thought he was just misinformed," reported the Austin (Tex.) Statesman...
Despite a surprising amount of documentation of the serious work of WHO, the comic know-HOW of Terry-Thomas makes the movie a light, diverting jape...
...conversion of Cissy Goforth is a bizarre jape, an eccentric and perhaps sophomoric joke. In the fall (if all goes as planned), Broadway audiences will be able to see for themselves whether they find it possible to pity, or to laugh...