Word: milo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called the Chez François and is prepared to desecrate all of Paris to pan for the black gold. But the eccentric owner of the cafe, the Countess Aurelia (Angela Lansbury), thwarts these evil malefactors of great wealth. With the aid of two loony cronies and a sewerman (Milo O'Shea), she herds them through a trap door under the cafe into a kind of eternal hell of sewage...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9 p.m.). Milo O'Shea and Jack MacGowran star in a com edy about a young postulant in a Trappist monastery who discovers that even monks have their little weaknesses. "Silent Song" is played almost entirely with out dialogue...
...FIREMEN'S BALL. From a slight and funny anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief, Director Miloś Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a delightful parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy in pre-Dubćek Czechoslovakia...
...Spanish Civil War. Finally, if the author felt inclined to autumnal apologia, he could start by revealing himself in his current incarnation as De Gaulle's Minister of Culture: the man who gave Paris a long-needed face washing, planted a copy of the Venus de Milo in the Paris Métro and, lately, helped the General resolve last May's student riots...
Most of the performers just hang around, hoping that Lawrence, Lee, or Herman might throw a bone their way. The usually redoubtable Milo O'Shea can't do a thing with the pale Sewerman, for example. And when O'Shea can't breathe life into a script, that's a sure sign the script is dead...