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...born with the gift of laughter," Sabatini announces in the novel's opening sentence, "and a sense that the world was mad." Scaramouche, in fact, is the type of the homme engagé, the modern intellectual activist. All his acts are the free acts of a man who dances his existence upon the abyss of nothingness. Today the notion that only the crazy are sane in a world gone mad would hardly rattle an espresso cup. It was not so in Sabatini's time. By a singular stroke of intuition, he created an existentialist hero almost a decade...
Like much of Roman Polanski's work, The Tenant is a comedy tipped with poison. As in Rosemary's Baby or Cul de Sac, laughter comes as much from astonishment, even outrage, as it does from humor. Polanski has a carbolic wit and discovers unplumbed depths of amusement in emotional deformity, physical abuse and psychic shock waves. If Chinatown found Polanski in a slightly more mellow mood -owing probably to the keyed-down romanticism of Robert Towne's screenplay-The Tenant shoots him right back to the center ring of his absurdist circus...
This may not sound very funny, but at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theater, a most nimble cast unleashes a hailstorm of laughter...
...step on a laugh by revealing either the word or the perpetrator. Just one caution: people may be laughing so hard all around you that, to hear the word, close attention will have to be paid. Silent Movie is brassy, incautious, funny without mercy. For laughter, Brooks gives no quarter, and he disdains the small change. As ever, he is out to break the bank. He comes as close as anyone in the vicinity to succeeding. Maybe even a little closer...
...writing a melodrama. With all this self-consciousness, it's not too surprising that The Devil's Disciple never quite compels our belief. But neither does it matter, since the Summer School Repertory Theater, inaugurating its season with polish and style, so winningly compels our laughter...