Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ripple of laughter went round the table and the professor and administrators exchanged glances...
...Playtime (1967), photo graphed in 70 mm. and yet to be released in the U.S. - have grown progressively more precious. Often the complexity of a Tati gag outweighs the punch line. In Traffic, it overwhelms it. Ingenuity, not wit, is the real point of the exercise, and laughter is strangled by mechanics...
Santa Claus is just an alias for Neil Simon. Every year just before Christmas, he loads up packets of goodies and tosses two unbridled hours of laughter to Broadway audiences. Santa Simon is back again with a cripplingly funny show aptly called The Sunshine Boys...
...knows the weakness intrinsic to all men especially strong ones, and eventually triggers Five's disgrace. Bloody Five's bravura balances Galy's passive foolishness. As surely as the latter metamorphoses into the army beast, the former weakens and falls. It's grim stuff of which to make laughter, and the comedy does become pretty sinister. Brecht mines the parallel veins of humor and despair, and the production succeeds in emulating him--almost...
...much as it is a projection of Lenny Bruce's mind, the show is a reflection of the world that crushed him. At the end, the hard blade gleams like the point of one of Bruce's jokes. It is easy to become so caught up in the laughter, the artifice of Lenny sauntering from stage to bedroom, that the real courtroom scene of his last indictment stands in harsh contrast. Despite the sinister tone of this scene and the ones that follow, we are not prepared to see Bruce splayed out naked...dead, on a toilet seat...