Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Their comic expressions are worth a digression--Or two if you have got the time for it: For a laugh they will goggle or grimace or ogle The girls or they will pantomime...
SUCH A GORGEOUS Kid Like Me is a funny movie. Now, The 400 Blows was a zany movie. Shoot the Piano Player was a really zany movie. But this is about as zany overall as Mississippi Mermaid. I laughed, in spots, as raucously as you can laugh in a nearly empty screening room. And I was swept, protesting, into a story I considered not only tired, but even maudlin in spots. The problem is that I, weaned as an appreciative viewer of foreign films on Truffaut, have come to expect perhaps too much of him. There is the inevitable disappointment...
...introduction of nine new shows. Its old Tuesday night lineup, which included a movie and rotating news and documentary specials, will be thrown out entirely, and three crime-oriented hours will take its place. Four half-hour situation comedies will go into the schedule to replace such shows as Laugh-In, which is now only a tired reminder of the hit of the '60s, and Circle of Fear, which tried to be ghostly but was never more than ghastly. In The Magician Bill Bixby, in the title role, plays a top-hatted Robin Hood who aids the distressed when...
...logistical problems which this large field causes has led the Boston Athletic Association to impose qualifying standards. Such standards are a direct blow to 350-pound fraternity brothers who want a good laugh...
...them, Hero cons a board of professors into giving him his doctorate after an absurd display of bogus scholarship. One dotty, dozing old Dickensian expert confuses every fifth or sixth line of dialogue with the title of a Dickens novel, which is fairly hilarious all by itself. Another laugh-bulging scene is a Madison Avenue group-think probe, complete with gestures à la charades, as to why a cleaning company's detergent spray produces mud when a housewife uses...