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...Perelman, humorist, on the feminist novel: "The ladies all seem intent on trying to outdo Fanny Hill...
...married at 18 or 19, and everyone knows everyone else and what they're doing. Visiting my grandmother, one of the local matriarchs, is always an occasion Despite our protest that we have eaten, overeaten, or can feel our aortas congealing into hockey pucks a la S. J. Perelman, she always has more food ready than any undernourished victim of Harvard cooking could eat in weeks. And because my grandmother is a Syrian Jew, it's delightfully exotic food--stuffed grape leaves, soups with unpronouncable names and apricot desserts. But the food aside, visiting the relatives is part and parcel...
...Opera features Allan Jones and To Tell the Truth Grand Dame Kitty Carlisle as a pair of nauseatingly naive and boring singing lovers. But even they are not enough to sink a film featuring the redoubtable Margaret Dumont and authored by (among others) George S. Kaufman, S. J. Perelman, and 300-pound miracle worker Al Boasberg, who wrote the famous stateroom scene and then left it torn up into tiny strips for the others to find and paste together. And in the end, it seems that the Marxes' relationship with Thalberg was a truly dialectical one, in which Thalberg succumbed...
...dine and quip during the '20s. But that seemed to suit the crowd just fine at last week's 75th birthday party for the Algonquin Hotel. The clubby bastion of New York literati was the site of a noisy celebration for 200 guests including Humorist S.J. Perelman, Actors Kevin McCarthy and Maureen Stapleton and Cartoonist Charles Addams. "You better feel witty before you enter the place; if not, just listen," cautioned Author Norman Mailer, a self-described "Algonquin freak." Playwright Marc Connelly, 86, the only Round Table regular on hand for the party, obviously felt...
...Like Perelman, he is antic, satirical and civilized. At commencement time, college graduates are traditionally welcomed into "the fellowship of educated men." Tom Stoppard uncondescendingly treats all playgoers as part of that fellowship. T.E. Kalem