Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What do you suppose, sir, is eating Castro?" rose the question in president Eisenhower's press conference last week, bringing a telling hoot of laughter from the newsmen. Eisenhower could only express bewilderment: "We are Cuba's best market, and you would think they would want good relationships. I don't know exactly what the difficulty...
What nettled the dissenting purists was Ritchard's addition of broadly comic stage business, which kept the house rippling with laughter. When the young page Cherubino pours out his adolescent romantic yearnings in Act I, he does so in Ritchard's version while holding on to a pair of women's drawers draped across a clothesline full of underthings. At the act's end, when Figaro mockingly congratulates Cherubino on his future military career, he punctuates the aria Non più andrai with a solid boot to the rump. But Ritchard's worst sin, according...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter...
Clear Conscience. Even more significantly, CBS moved last week to clip the wings of non-quiz shows. President Frank Stanton announced that he wants CBS to dump all "deceptive" TV practices (including canned applause and canned laughter) unless the audience is informed of them beforehand. Stanton even lashed out at CBS's own personal-interview shows, notably such tame and untarnished stalwarts as U.N. in Action and Person to Person, because the guests are vaguely rehearsed. In rage, P. to P.'s producers, John Aaron and Jesse Zousmer, resigned -but not before retorting that the show...
...earned Stanton's ire because it falsely purported to be a soiree at the Waldorf: "Does Mr. Stanton want me to believe that Rochester works for Jack Benny, that it was really George De Witt's own hair on Name That Tune?" Comedians moaned that without canned laughter they may well get none at all; politicians feared that they may have to tell when their speeches are ghosted. If absolute honesty prevails, observed New York Herald Tribune Critic Marie Torre, TV men may have to confess that Manners the butler is not a midget, that Lassie...