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BLACK COMEDY, the better half of two one-acters by British Playwright Peter Shaffer, provokes laughter with characters careening in the dark in a sculptor's studio when the lights blow...
...little Parrish cares about laughter when you count up his attempts at wit and find that none is original. He opens with a aerial view of an electricity tower rising next to a statue of a Catholic saint--just like the opening of La Dolce Vita where a helicopter swoops over skyscrapers with a piece of saintly statuary roped to its belly. Unfortunately, Parrish steals the shot without understanding...
Throughout the museum last week some 90 white, Negro and Mexican children from Southern California schools were enjoying a frenzy of creative activity. And everywhere, prancing excitedly among the kids, was a frenetic 63-year-old man whose lean face crinkled often with laughter. It was Dr. Seuss, the cartoonist and writer, whose zany animals (The Cat in the Hat, Horton the Elephant, Yertle the Turtle) have captivated some 33 million buyers of children's books. Hamming it up for the kids, he popped in front of drawings by Henry Moore, brought gales of youthful laughter as he told...
...hunks of undigested raw material, Nabokov is an artist who fastidiously constructs intricate plots and dazzling verbal mosaics. He creates books without precedent in form (Pale Fire) or treatment (Lolita). He can also be a clever ice skater, stylishly tracing or following someone else's figures-the Conradian Laughter in the Dark, for example, or the Kafkaesque Invitation to a Beheading...
...Debbie Reynolds and Dick Van Dyke, the film represents a new direction. Together they provoke laughter whenever they should, but for the first time both are unafraid to appear unattractive and even unsympathetic in roles that show them at play and at bay. Like them, Divorce American Style is flatteringly made up, but around the vivacious smiles are the lines of tension and the occasional haggard look of truth...