Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made moviegoers laugh as often and as well as Chaplin or Keaton. His work, which has won three Oscars, is among the best of American film comedy. Yet he has never appeared onscreen, and his name-Charles M. Jones, when a producer wanted him to sound classy, or Chuck Jones, as he now prefers to bill himself-is scarcely known outside the movie business. Jones has spent his nearly 40-year career in the ebullient but usually anonymous medium of the animated cartoon...
Back To Methusaleh isn't earthshakingly dramatic. There's no comedy (it is positively blasphemic when some people illogically laugh) or clashing about. What there is a very short play which seems like a very long play, and in the good sense...
...haggard, bleary-eyed faces around me looked like they'd been saving up laughter about themselves for a long, long time. And for that audience, the evening was blissful. Small-scale Harvard drama always has a safety mechanism: If your lack of professionalism starts to show, just laugh it up, enjoy yourself on stage, and the audience--if it has any reason to feel involved--will forget they're watching a bunch of clods and chuckle along magnanimously. It's critical immunity...
...manly crew of the Pinafore. Jeffrey Davies limp-wrists his way to great applause, mincing about the stage in white tights and giggling with the mannerisms of the stereotyped homosexual. The tumultuous enthusiasm which his acting draws from the crowd break his sincerity. He abandons his role to laugh with the audience at the character he has created. Only this inconsistency keeps him from stealing the show...
Throughout the press conference, Shockley would keep dropping bombshells like this, and new reporters would come in and make him repeat all his earlier statements, and everyone would roll their eyes and try not to laugh...