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WRITTEN by political cartoonist and occasional screenwriter Jules Feiffer, Knock Knock is described by its producers as "a manic farce about Joan of Arc and two other guys...
...mighty hot in the basement space known as the Quincy House Cage. This seems appropriate for what Knock Knock's producers describe as a "manic farce about Joan of Arc and two other guys." Playwright Jules Feiffer is best known for his political cartoons, but he has written the screenplays to such manic farces as Robert Altman's Popeye...
...feel the impulse -- but hold me long & close in your thoughts. I shall take up so little room, & it's only there that I'm happy!" She was then internationally renowned but also trapped in a long, misbegotten marriage to / Edward R. (Teddy) Wharton, a hale fellow and manic-depressive whom her good friend Henry James suspected of being "cerebrally compromised." On the other hand, the Harvard-educated Fullerton, some three years her junior, had drifted into his 40s without accomplishing much of anything except a string of ex- lovers, male and female. Yet she listened with a lover...
...work of Nikolai Gogol, one lighthearted and delightfully absurd, the other darker, crueler and obsessive to the point of madness. Director Christopher Duff manages to display through two short pieces, The Nose and From a Madman's Diary, both sides of Gogol's talent with out losing the peculiar, manic sensibility that unites the whole of his canon...
...machinery still works. Sixty years after The Front Page hit Broadway, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur farce retains its manic energy and toxic bite. Gags still pinwheel out of the plot -- the one about a managing editor trying to scoop the world on a big story while keeping his ace reporter from deserting him to get married. And, as three previous movie incarnations have proved, The Front Page turns briskly whether the reporter is a man (Pat O'Brien in 1931, Jack Lemmon in 1974) or the boss's ex-wife (Rosalind Russell | in the 1940 His Girl Friday...