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Some Commusicals did fit the stolid stereotype--Mikhail and Judit shouting, "Let's harvest the beet crop right here!"--but many have an enduring buoyancy. Grigori Alexandrov's pioneering The Jolly Fellows (1934) percolates with jaunty jazz, Cubist compositions and a Dietrichish blond in a party hat. The amazing Midnight...
This plot was no joke. Many Commusicals were censored for having a decadent Westernized tone. As an officious official bellows to a young dancer in Carnival Night (U.S.S.R., 1957), "We want to raise the consciousness of our workers. But what do you expect to raise with naked legs?" Only about...
JOHN MCDONOUGH Captain Kangaroo II. He's gentle and jolly, but what about that beard? No problem: kids will think he's Santa
Crunch time: I'm into the fifth day of the second week, which means that either tomorrow or Thursday, I've got to go cold turkey on ferry sinkings, militia uprisings and men biting dogs. But what about those jolly bits that the media throw in so you won't...
All the actors give a feel of realism to their characters and yet they are also archetypes projected from Bobby's perception of reality. Guastaferro as buddy Joey does well to rein in his character as an outrageous, obnoxious and prejudiced Jew and gets quite a few guffaws about his...