Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although he is the last character to be introduced, not appearing until about an hour of the picture has elapsed. At one point he tells us (in a voice that could not only curdle blood but the contents of one's stomach as well) that "life is a goddamn laugh riot." He goes on, simpering now, "Life... you remember life," he says. We do, of course, and the power of The Boys in the Band is its ability to make us see that homosexuals, like everyone else, are victims of that very same disease...
...know whether it is comedy or drama; it is very difficult for them to twist their imaginations to encompass both," says Constantine. The show is billed as a "comedy-drama," but the show's originators managed to persuade the network to eliminate a standard but bothersome sitcom laugh track. "Our humor is too subtle for it," Reynolds explains...
Without its plush outdoor landscapes, the movie would be almost indistinguishable from a particularly disastrous Laugh-In. The choppiness of the action could be excused as it precludes a continuous plot-line, which is also absent in the book. But the minimal transitions that are attempted lack the barest suggestion of originality. It just so happens, for instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance...
...sanatoriums they laugh less...
...told the Great One. "I was afraid your Norton [Jackie's bumbling TV sidekick] had gone to work for the telephone company." Replied Gleason: "If you'd like to be on my staff, Mr. President, you're more than welcome." Nixon had the last and best laugh at a Washington dinner for broadcast correspondents. In a sly allusion to the dropping of Gleason's regular show from next year's TV schedule, he remarked: "I told Jackie, 'This is the President'-and you should have heard his language! He thought...