Word: newley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger...
...Roar of the Greasepaint. The Smell of the Crowd. the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricisse extravaganza, has more scatological double-entendres than you could shake your...fist at. Vomiting gets a big laugh, as does a jock in drag. There is much belching, and some to-do over a lower-class character's use of obscenity (which, alas, is far from sufficiently feisty...
...Marilyn Monroe costarred. Elaine Joyce will play the Monroe part and Bobby Morse will fill the Lemmon role. Jule Styne supplies the music, Bob Merrill the lyrics, and Gower Champion will direct. The team that put together Stop the World -I Want to Get Off, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, will be back with another marquee-macerating title, It's a Funny Old World We Live In, but the World's Not Entirely to Blame. Newley will play Everyman, as is his wont. Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death is a musical "of the street...
...model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe, etc., who now has apparently forsaken fake Fellini for pseudo Salinger. Give him one thing, though, he's the equal of Erich Segal - in art, if not in commerce...
...short-lived sitcom bearing his own name, made it obvious that he is, at best, a second banana. Knotts, the Milquetoast deputy sheriff on the old Andy Griffith Show, tried to make a virtue of his inability to sing, dance or string a show together. Opening night, Guest Anthony Newley pushed Knotts around and took command-a running gag that provoked a feeling of sympathy. But can other guests and the same gag make a season...