Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them. Unless, of course they can capitalize on their embarrassment and go professional. Since Charlie Chaplin turned the loser into a comic classic, some of the most successful comedians hit the bigtime on verbal slapstick. You laugh at Rodney Dangerfield (if you do) because he "don't get no respect." And you chuckle at Woody Allen because he's a Jewish...
...respect, Kahn has made a fascinating departure from Wilder's script. I refer to the matter of sound effects, where the director has out-Wildered Wilder--and I bet the playwright would applaud. While there are many things that Wilder does not want us to see, he does want us to hear them. Some of these are distant--like a whistling train, a factory work-whistle, and chirping crickets on a moonlit night. Others, however, are on-stage things that are wholly imaginary--like the milkman's horse and his clanking bottles, and Mr. Webb's lawnmower...
Still, everything started off well enough. Amin declared that he "loved" Blair and announced that "out of respect for the Queen" he had decided to postpone Hills' execution. At the next day's meeting an argument apparently broke out between Amin and the British envoys. The negotiations ended when Blair, an old-school officer with a clipped voice, gave Amin a smart military salute and stalked out of the room murmuring, "I am very disappointed...
...arguing with a beggar. The poor fellow was trying to earn a few centimes playing the accordion, while his pet monkey collected coins in a tin cup. Now you will recall from The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark that Clouseau has an immaculate and quite literal respect for the law. This is, in fact, why he is in uniform, on foot patrol, instead of dashing about in plain clothes and solving glamorous crimes. His strict adherence to the book, as well as an unshakable simple-mindedness and a fateful penchant for instigating catastrophe, has kept Clouseau from...
...made it official: the race-hatred theme is being shelved. Whites will even be permitted to join the sect, though no rush of recruits is expected. Said Wallace: "We have caught hell from the white man for 400 years, but we have grown to where if the white man respects us, we will respect...