Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN. Edward Albee transfers a bleak comedy by the late Giles Cooper from England to U.S. suburbia. Barry Nelson and Barbara Bel Geddes play a couple who can't make ends meet until she finds a career in the world's oldest profession...
...Coalition of Ideas. For Britain, things do not promise to improve any time soon. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research esti mates that at best the effects of devaluation will improve Britain's balance of payments by only $156 million in 1968; not until late in 1969 can it expect to turn smartly into the black. Meantime, domestic food prices have risen 3.8% since devaluation and will rise 5% to 15% after the first of the year. The powerful Trades Union Council still insists that it will seek a wage rise of an average $1.68 a week...
...goof, but he is essentially a monologist who portrays no other character than Bob Hope. Jack Benny is a "character" comedian-stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed, and tuned more to the sensibilities of his audiences...
...late-show fans of the Road cycle know, gags took precedence over plot, locale and plausibility. Lamour would pop up in snowy Alaska during the Klondike gold rush wearing a sarong. The main goal of Hope and Crosby seemed to be to step on each other's lines, and the script was a dead letter. Once, when the writer happened onto the set, Hope called: "If you hear any of your own dialogue, yell bingo." A typical exchange, from Road to Utopia -Lamour: "You're facetious." Hope: "Keep politics out of this." Yet by 1962, when the great...
...that Hope gets more kicks from working live than on film. "You do a movie," he says, "and you have to wait to find out if it's any good. But personal appearances, that's instant satisfaction." He likes to perform in public for young people, and lately has been making the college rounds. A recent opener at U.C.L.A.: "Before it's too late, I want to make one thing clear-the only thing I'm recruiting here tonight is laughs...