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...scenario witty but impeccably sentimental, and the supporting cast only a pinfeather short of perfection. Protean Dick Van Dyke is uneasy with his accent but nonetheless nimble as Bert, the cockney chimney sweep, whether hoofing it with a quartet of penguins or leading the sooty male chorus in a raffish rooftop ballet. Ed Wynn, as the risible Uncle Albert, floats upward every time he laughs, and soon has everyone aloft for the movie's most engaging scene, a high high tea. Though overlong and sometimes over-cute, Mary Poppins is the drollest Disney film in decades, a feat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Have Umbrella, Will Travel | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

HELLO, DOLLY! is a twinkle-toed musical, thanks to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion's dancers and to a raffish, resourceful matchmaker, Carol Channing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 1, 1964 | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

HEtLO, DOLLY! is a twinkle-toed musical, thanks to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion's dancers and to a raffish, resourceful matchmaker, Carol Channing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater, Records, Books, Best Sellers: TELEVISION | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

REUBEN, REUBEN, by Peter De Vries. A raffish, gifted poet, who very much resembles Dylan Thomas, visits suburbia, proves to be a catalyst in combination with sex and liquor. The partying and the pratfalls are followed by a vintage De Vries hangover of brooding second thoughts about modern life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 6, 1964 | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-films ever made in Italy is Director Dino Risi's study of a raffish Roman playboy (Vittorio Gassman) who jet-propels a shy young law student (Jean Louis Trintignant) into a world of fast cars, soft shoulders and sudden death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 31, 1964 | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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