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From the wings, the vaudeville comedian strode onstage, cradling a three-week-old baby. "I may have in my arms," he told his audience, "the future Prime Minister of Mirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prime Minister of Mirth | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...sense, Actress Geraldine Chaplin brings very little to her television role of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Says Chaplin about the bustled turn-of-the-century gowns she wears: "I get to have a behind, which I don't have in normal life." But Chaplin has little sympathy for Lily, who ignores love in favor of a convenient marriage and who snuffs herself out with chloral after her reputation is compromised. Says Chaplin, who for 13 years has lived uncompromisingly with Spanish Director Carlos Saura: "I like playing her. I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Surely, I thought, there was plenty of mirth in this sacred land across the Charles River. But then I thought about football, and the humor of the situation quickly escaped me. There was, in fact, nothing funny at all about B.U., Harvard or anything connected with the two--so long as football is involved...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon: Hardly a Laughing Matter for Crimson | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

Father's Day. Maybe the title should be Divorcee's Day. Three highly articulate women (Tammy Grimes, Susan Tyrrell, Mary Beth Hurt) who have been ditched by their husbands indulge in distinctly inflammatory remarks about the male as s.o.b. Alternating between poignance and dipsy mirth, this drama takes a 20/20 look at divorce, U.S. style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Summer Fair | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

Indeed, "Observer" is an island of mirth in one of the world's most authoritative?and dullest?newspapers. "He adds humor to the Times, "says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's executive editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Humor Man | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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