Word: roguish
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What redeems the play is what redeems any Osborne play: an intriguing central character who rivets the audience with nothing more than talk, talk and more talk. This time it is the roguish writer, a part that Richardson does not so much perform as revel in -gloriously. Behind his screen of "Who, me?" buffoonery, the writer has plumbed the cold depths of his situation. The other characters-old generation and new-are still in the shallows, still fashionably suffering a loss of faith as if it were a briefcase left on a train. To the writer, the gravest...
There is nothing innocent about Melvin Laird. The sleek, expensive wardrobe, the thin cigar, the grim scowl when offering some dire pronouncement, the somehow roguish smile when lighthearted, make him easy to caricature, easy to suspect of ulterior motives. As a Congressman, he could be sly in good causes and in partisan ones. When he overthrew Charles Halleck as House minority leader, he managed to create the impression that he and Gerald Ford had split the rebel forces. Actually, they were united, and the putative split was a ploy. Once, just after Minority Leader Ford and his eminence grise. Laird...
...collectors of the exhibition lead the viewers on their search. Different editions of the same bust, side by side, tantalize the eye with slight variations in a textured surface or a twisted bowtie. The show makes you look at sculpture in a new way. Among the crowd of gesticulating roguish faces, you try to distinguish Daumier's style and conception...
...point of plotlessness, the series romps through a tomato surprise of old tunes and new ones, comedy sketches and big production numbers. Old Pro George Burns helped tie together the opening-night proceedings with cigar-chomping asides and monologues. Another guest, Tony Randall, contributed a mix of roguish, debonair and fumbling antics. Other celebrities will appear in future weeks to goad the ingratiating team of Morse and Peaker along their song-and-dance journey through courtship and marriage. That's Life should live, if not happily ever after, at least for the TV season...
Died. Don Quinn, 67, creator of radio's old Fibber McGee and Molly show; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. " 'Tain't funny, McGee," said Molly to her roguish husband. Well, it was-so funny, in fact, that the line went into the language, and the nittering, nattering couple at 79 Wistful Vista enjoyed one of the longest lives in radio comedy, from 1935 to 1956, when they died a natural death...