Word: kopital
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, a film version of the Arthur Kopit play produced off Broadway in 1962, is supposed to be a comedy about momogamy in American life. The heroine, an overdecorated middle-aged man-eater (Rosalind Russell), arrives at a Caribbean resort with her nixed of kin: a husband (Jonathan Winters), dead for a decade, who hangs taxidermically immortalized on a coat hook in her clothes closet, and a son (Robert Morse), arguably alive, who at 25 still sucks his thumb and sleeps...
...Kopit's play turned horror into humor by reducing characters to costumes -easy to laugh at a son being swallowed if the mother is just a feather-boa constrictor. Richard Quine's film turns yocks into rocks by trying to discover immortal souls under the plastic spangles-hard to laugh at a farce that opens with a prologue in heaven. Quine & Co. kept their cinematic corpse on ice for more than a year while they tried to decide what to do with it. They should have stuffed...
...What could you possibly want with a still from that thing?" asked the manager's secretary. I explained to her how, on account of Arthur Kopit's being an alumnus and his play's having copped an Adams House play-wrighting contest about a decade ago, the movie seemed to have a Harvard angle. She agreed to go find the manager...
...intelligent man wouldn't take a job like that," playwright Arthur Kopit '58 contended. "A critic," Kopit said, "should describe and not evaluate. He should be a reporter...
Walter Kerr came in for the lion's share of last night's discussion, pro and con -- most of it con. "Mr. Kerr happens to be at this moment Louis the Fourteenth," explained Kopit, who joined his fellow panelists in reluctantly confessing Kerr to be the best of the New York daily reviewers...