Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny August day more than 24 years ago, a young man of Cremona named Francesco Ghizzoni fell in love. The girl was a 16-year-old blonde with blue eyes, an infectious laugh, and a good figure. Francesco, who at 25 already owned a small café, a house and some land, made an instant decision: "This girl will be my wife...
Though without much voice-he classifies himself as a "bastard bari-tenor"-Actor Slezak made the audience laugh almost every time he opened his mouth, particularly at his first-act entrance, when he was bundled in fluttery finery and carried a small live pig (rubber diapered) under his arm. Whatever critics thought of the rest of the performance, no one had an unkind word for Walter. Said he: "Maybe the Met should apologize to me for the mixed reviews; I came out shining like a rose...
...warm, so close to life that it could not possibly be transmitted without the people. The humor exists in the tangled logic of the Jews' existence at this time of history, in late nineteenth century Russia. The existence itself had to be rationalized and joked about, and what we laugh at are people laughing at themselves. Acting out this world in English, then, is perhaps the only substitute for reading Sholom Aleichem in Yiddish, and it is improbable that anyone could put across the interpretation as well as Carnovsky does. He reaches the height of eloquence through silence, as Paul...
Late in the film the directors flash a Q-bomb explosion on the screen and then announce, "this is not really the end of our picture." A film like The Mouse That Roars is encouraging, for without this ability to laugh at our insane weaponry, such a finale might be worth contemplating...
...Quixote, Actor Cobb, brilliantly backed by Eli Wallach and Colleen Dewhurst, put on a performance that was both poignant and terrifying but never out of control. His deeply felt Don Quixote seemed to overcome the world, as Philosopher Unamuno put it, "by giving [it] cause to laugh...