Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less funny if more consistent is Gene Saks' filmed version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple. A dull bunch of character actors takes the edge off the comedy, and Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon don't work nearly so well together as in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie. By chance this assertion can be tested since The Fortune Cookie is on re-release at the Orpheum. It, rather than The Odd Couple or The Producers, is the legitimate '60's heir to the best tradition of Hollywood comedies...
...replies from Harvard and M.I.T. were not well received when the 40-odd members of the coordinating committee met Thursday night. Several of those present complained that the universities were "giving us the run around." The community should "meet only with those who can make the decisions---the policymakers, not the underlings," one woman said...
...documentary repeated details of the supposedly dangerous plots that hippies, yippies and "terrorists" were hatching to take over Chicago. The odd thing is that the Chicago police took so many of the demonstrators' boasts seriously. Even now, they fail to understand that if an army of 10,000 genuinely violent "revolutionaries" had descended on the city, many policemen and bystanders would have been killed...
...Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams III). And The Outcasts are an odd couple of bounty hunters in the post-Civil War West. Don Murray plays a former slaveholder; Otis Young is a former slave. For viewers with more conventional tastes, CBS offers a long-unawaited TV revival of Blondie. What is most startling about this series is that the heroine (Patricia Harty...
...canvas," John D. Graham once observed. To understand that remark, it is necessary to know something about Graham. Born Ivan Dabrowsky in Russia, he was a little-known painter who became a colorful figure in the Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention could not be held for long by a figure that...