Word: plautus
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...that plays jazz jazz jazz. Her mother protests: "Hardly decent, is it?" Hardly. Many moviegoers, in fact, will find this picture downright scandalous. But Director Jorn Donner is not prurient; he is Priapic. He does not play the facts of life for sniggers; he displays them, like some pipsqueak Plautus, for grand though gross guffaws...
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Since Plautus originally wrote it, this musical is more than 2,000 years old, but the situations are still funny, the houris are delectable, and Zero Mostel is a pluperfect master of the comic revels...
...BOYS FROM SYRACUSE. Plautus does it again, this time with the added tinkering of Shakespeare, George Abbott, and Rodgers and Hart. Apart from being a tuneful comic delight, the show contains an adorable and gifted cutie named Julienne Marie...
...Boys from Syracuse. Breeding tells, and this musical is a thoroughbred, originally sired by Shakespeare (Comedy of Errors) out of Plautus. The Rodgers tunes are a lilting delight, the Hart lyrics are a tonic to the ear, and a Most Adorable Cutie award should be bestowed on the bewitchingly gifted Julienne Marie...
...Boys from Syracuse. Breeding tells, and this musical is a thoroughbred, originally sired by Shakespeare (Comedy of Errors) out of Plautus. The Rodgers & Hart songs are a lilting delight, and a Most Adorable Cutie award should be bestowed on the bewitchingly gifted Julienne Marie...