Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the three men planned this action as a joke--a horribly macabre one. We, at least, were not amused...
Hamlet kills three men (Claudius, Polonius and Laertes) with his own hand. After stabbing Polonius in his mother's presence, Hamlet says briskly: "I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room," and cracks a joke about the corpse starting to stink in a month or so. Far from feeling queasy in matters of life and death, Hamlet shows repeatedly that he is coldly vindictive and diabolically foresighted. He not only sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with a sealed letter containing their own death warrants, but urges England's king to bump them off without warning...
...week's end it was only possible to wonder who in what city tenement or guarded country home was laughing hardest at the joke on Al-who had gotten the chair at last...
...York toy stores. He was mourned last week, however, in a very narrow circle. Only Tough Tony gave any public display of grief. When a New York Daily News reporter called him and announced that Al had been shot to death, Tony said: "What the hell kind of a joke do you call that?" "It's no joke," said his informant. "Oh, my God," moaned Tony. "Oh, my God. No ... no ... no." He hurried to the hotel and threw himself, weeping hysterically, upon his brother's corpse...
...more amusing picture? Allyson and Niven can hardly be expected to fill the bill with anything like the inspired inanities of which Lombard and Powell were capable. But the real fault seems to lie with Director Henry Koster. who apparently has not learned that even a good joke can be spoiled by bad timing...