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...funny, human moment, and if Hanky Panky had 30 or 40 more of them it might have been a congenial little picture. It certainly would have been better if Gilda Radner had not decided that for her next impersonation she would do a romantic ingénue. She is, in lantern-jaw looks and brash spirit, unsuited to playing such a role straight and apparently unwilling to parody it. Wilder seems so embarrassed for her that he tries to do the acting for both of them, with results that strain his normally funny interpretation of the coward who finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teaming Off | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

SEEKING DIVORCE. Gilda Radner, 35, onetime Roseanne Roseannadanna and Ba-ba Wawa of Saturday Night Live; from G.E. Smith, 30, rock guitarist; after two years of marriage; in Hollywood. Radner and her husband split a month ago, after she and Actor-Comedian Gene Wilder teamed up both on and off the set of the film Hanky Panky, due out next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

What do you get when you team up Gene Wilder, 43, (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy) with Gilda Radner, 35, (Saturday Night Live) in a murder-mystery romance? Hanky Panky, that's what. In the film, due out next summer, Wilder witnesses a murder. He and Radner then hit the road for clues to the crime, with Freelance Villain Richard Widmark, 66, in hot pursuit. Along for the chase are the police, who-you guessed it-think Wilder is the murderer. Love blossoms between the two co-stars during the film, but not, it seems, during a ride aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1981 | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

There were possibilities here. Bob Newhart plays the President of the United States; Madeline Kahn is his dipso wife, Gilda Radner his ditsy daughter. Superb comedians play supporting roles: Harvey Korman, Austin Pendleton, Bob Dishy, many more. And Buck Henry keeps threatening to prove himself a Renaissance man for this dark age of comedy. He has shown his talent in screenplays, magazine writing and, most convincingly, as a frequent guest on the Tonight show, where his deadpan surrealism is most at home. Henry may need collaborators-a Mike Nichols, a Johnny Carson-to spark his wry, reactive humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comedy: Big Bucks, Few Yuks | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...POOR is this "satire in the broadest comic sense" (the producer's label) that it manages to embarrass even some of America's funniest actors and actresses. Newhart, who must cope with a ridiculous scene about dreams, Kahn (who says about three words) and Radner (who goes to waste) hold up adequately under the assault of Henry's script but there is little they can do to salvage any humor or grace. As the ambassador to the U.N., Harvey Korman (who deserves a film of his own) stands out as particularly funny; perhaps he adlibbed his lines. The rest...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: An Impeachable Offense | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

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