Word: nero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit musical has a grossly libidinous libretto, some charmingly scummy sets, and a quartet of top comedians (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers) who dance and doubletalk their way through the back alleys of Nero's Rome...
...FORUM. Broadway's best burlesque show has been hurled at the screen like a custard pie; but despite Director Richard Lester's extravagant cinematics, Top Bananas Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton keep 'em laughing at the good and bawd goings on in Nero's Rome...
...while, of course, Actor Matthau is leering, sneering, sniggering, swaggering, popping his optics, slopping his chops and generally behaving like the Nero of the Nuisance Claims Division. In the end, Willie receives a different sort of check from the one he expects, but until fate mows him down he offers what is certainly the season's lushest crop of crass...
...SCREEN SCENE, STARRING PETER NERO (RCA Victor). Hollywood seems to be making more indelible music than Broadway. Thunderball, Forget Domani, The Shadow of Your Smile and Ship of Fools provide a varied program for nimble Pianist Peter Nero, who keeps an orchestra at hand to buttress his moods, among them humor: What's New Pussycat? and Help! get full and funny treatment...
This time Nero takes on the "whole, damn Federal Bureau of Investigation." He does it mostly because he is offered the biggest fee he has ever had, and this promises months and months of gourmandizing before he would need to go back to work. His client is a middle-aged widow who has sent friends and bigwigs thousands of copies of a book attacking the FBI. Ever since, the G-men have been following and harassing her. She wants Nero to make them lay off. The fat genius plunges in, following a tortuous, tightly plotted path until a nifty stunt...