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Senescent Saint "Tell me, do you think your old man has slipped his trolley-that he belongs in a laughing academy?" The old man is Joseph P. Kotcher. the academy is an old folks home, and the question is rhetorical. In Kotch, Walter Matthau plays a septuagenarian of shrewd independence; he has no intention of fading slowly into the sunset years. Because, among other offenses, he leaves the toilet seat up, Kotcher is eased out of his son's bickering household in Los Angeles and takes off for the Northwest, sightseeing and being lovable. Mostly being lovable. Wiping children...
...Winters. Kotch's children are Punch and Judy, and his neighbors caricatures. Moreover, the soupy conclusion tends to weaken all that went before. Kotch is "family" entertainment, but in its anxiety to please, it eventually cloys. It is a yes-man of a movie that Joseph P. Kotcher would have disdained...
...Jerusalem one day last week a young Jew named Aryeh Kotcher concealed something in his garments, got past a cordon of police without it being noticed, joined throngs of Jews praying at the ancient Wailing Wall. During a moment of silence, Aryeh Kotcher whipped out his shofar or ram's horn, let out a loud toot before police bore down and arrested him. Public shofar-blowing in Jerusalem is forbidden by law, for it infuriates Arabs, incites to riot.* But Jew Kotcher was happy because it was Yom Kippur, and his ritual blast on the horn had signalized...
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