Word: mashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Kardon must have had a riot writing the script. It's wild and fanciful, unfettered by plot or logic. The dialogue is a great mish-mash of half-digested morsels from Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Coleridge, Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles and whatever else was floating through Kardon's consciousness as he held pen in hand. The mysterious phrase that serves as title pops up again and again, meaning nothing in particular but continually teasing the audience...
...Mash Notes. They are all puppets. Manipulated and animated by two men, Francis Peschka and Gordon Murdock, both 50, they have been attracting enchanted, totally devoted audiences at the 24-seat Little Players cheater for over a decade. To most of their fans, the Standwells are far more real than the cardboard actors of Broadway. Mail comes addressed to the puppets: mash notes to Mademoiselle, formal thank-yous to Isabelle, extravagant fan letters to Elsie. Bette Davis used to telephone the theater regularly for reservations, asking for "Miss Lump, please...
Nixon and Agnew, of course, claimed victory for the Republicans, O'Brien and Muskie said the Democrats had gained. What really happened was that different races and widely separated local issues combined to produce a mish-mash of confusion which can only be called a draw...
...really should care is Gould. His recent string of movies (MASH, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Getting Straight) are all doing booming business, but M-A-S-H is still his only first-rate film. He would do well to study the sagging box-office strength of Marlon Brando and Peter Sellers after too many years of carrying bad movies on good shoulders...
...Mash Note...