Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Startling that a film so skillful could be made by a man so young: Director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco is only 26. True, he has had help from his family. His father, a well-known photographer, is in charge of his camera, and his wife is his leading lady. She plays with an easy and spontaneous grace, and she looks, in her moments of limp asthenic loveliness, like an undine sighing in the Seine...
...Waltz, Funnyman Sellers has put his talent on a turkey that, on closer examination, proves to be a plucked peacock. As a play-written by France's Jean Anouilh and played on Broadway by Sir Ralph Richardson and Mildred Natwick-it was a brilliantly dressy slapstick satire: a show most wise and cruel when it seemed most raucous and extravagant. As a screenplay-written by Wolf Mankowitz and directed by John Guillermin-Anouilh's fine-feathered strutter has been saponified, caponified, shorn of its more splendid plumes of wit and stuffed with a mighty chunk of supererogatory...
...arrange the details of the deal, the three little pigs import a big bad wolf-a famous funny-moneyman known as Le Dab (Jean Gabin). They offer the aged but by no means senile counterfeiter a quarter share in the enterprise. "Two million dollars. Split it four ways and what have you got?" the brothelkeeper purrs. "Twenty years," Le Dab snorts, and demands half the loot. Slyly the three little pigs pretend to give in, but secretly they plan to eat high on the wolf before the deal is done. Or will the wolf make a meal of singed pork...
...ever written. Seasons is a play of wit and probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More. On the comedy front, A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title, and rings merry changes on the slightly tired subject of nonconformity. In its second season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary remains a wisecrackling funfest...
...Mixing surrealism and college humor, young (25) Arthur Kopit has mounted a splendidly zany attack on Mom behind the jawbreaking title, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hun? You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Having recently crossed the 500 mark in performances, Jean Genet's audacious, exotic, unsentimental and eloquent dramatization of the color question, The Blacks, is still being enacted with undiminished zest and style...