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...movie is peppered with direct steals from famous stars, roles and songs, most of which originated in the '30s. The hunch-backed servant Igor (Marty Feldman) has the bulging eyes and eerie mischievousness of Harpo Marx, or of the Charles Adams cartoon character who later became known as Uncle Fester. He delivers one-liners like Groucho. Cloris Leachman, who does a terrific job of frowning and mugging through an unrewarding part, may have pilfered from Dame Judith Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity...
...three home runs; 895 miles below sea level-these are the replies such works elicit from the reader. The rest is merely a salaam to accuracy and arcana. Joining the shelf of unique reference books is another first: the first Book of Firsts by Patrick Robertson. A British civil servant, indefatigable researcher and humorist very much manque, Robertson has highly individual criteria for celebrity. Not for him the Joe Namaths, Henry Kissingers or Valerie Perrines of this world. The Robertson laurels go to "Manchester Jack," the first lion tamer (1835); M. Jolly-Bellin, first dry cleaner (1849); William Kemmler, first...
...desert Arab tradition, however, an absolute monarch is, like the Pope, the servant of the servants of the Almighty. Even on the street, as Faisal climbs into the front seat of his white Chrysler New Yorker, he is apt to pause to listen to petitioners, some hardly more than beggars. Once, recalls an aide, his left foot was in the car, his right foot still on the ground, when a simple Bedouin began running toward him shouting, "Ya, Faisal!" (the Arab equivalent of "Hey"). Bodyguards started to chase the man, but the King stopped them. "Don't drive...
...lined the sides of the room, which was decorated with blue and white pilasters, crystal chandeliers and wall-to-wall beige carpet. Other men sat along the walls, and occasionally one would get up silently to hand the King a folded letter or speak quietly to him. Meanwhile, a servant served bitter Bedouin coffee in handleless cups...
...forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries out in disbelief. He is quickly seduced, though, by the siren call...