Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Lasky and Little are tangy with comic flavor, Schisgal's shining angel for 1975 is Dustin Hoffman, making his debut as a director. Moving 18 actors with the agility of an Osterizer, Hoffman proves that he is only a laugh-beat away from the comedic ingenuity Of Mike Nichols...
Brooks' comedy career began on the schoolyard circuit-a bright, bookish, undersized Brooklyn kid who learned fast that he could keep bigger boys at bay by making them laugh. In his early teens he was touring Catskills resorts as a stand-up comic and drummer. At 30 he was making $2,500 a week writing Your Show of Shows with his old Catskills pal Comedian Sid Caesar...
...Another laugh and then Brian Petrovek, Harvard goaltender and Eastern college hockey's top netminder, assumes a more serious manner...
...since the ice age," although there have also been large snows in 1694 and 1888, the last one occuring on the 13th of July. He gets hit on the head with a snowball. Fellini makes fun of these characters; in Roma, it was Anna Magnani who had the last laugh. Now the director is in control again. If his impotence was exposed by confrontation with a city of Rome's complexity, his omnipotence is only too intrusive as he conquers a town the size of Rimini...
...course it's grating, flatulent, desperate-all in the best and the worst manner of Mel Brooks. As comic and as film maker, Brooks wants to knock you cockeyed. For a laugh, he will do anything, try anything. He rains gags. After a Brooks bit, audiences can be exhausted; after a Brooks film, there is the lingering feeling of having been pummeled. Brooks is like a young, slightly skittish fighter whose energy compensates for lack of finesse. He hits out wildly, continuously, hoping that a few punches will land. Since comedy audiences usually have their guard down (they want...