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...years, it all adds up," began the ad for the Herald Tribune Sunday magazine last week. "Whispering, inconspicuous-formal, efficient-but precisely the perfect qualifications for a museum custodian, an undertaker, a mortuary scientist. Thirteen years ago, upon the death of Harold Ross, precisely that difficult task befell William Shawn: to be the museum curator, the mummifier, the preserver-in-amber, the smiling embalmer-for Harold Ross's New Yorker magazine...
With Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett deftly handling the key roles, this wry, observant comedy argues with cogency that marriage is funny as hell...
...Broadway PETERPAT, by Enid Rudd. In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina -his wife. With Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett deftly handling the key roles, this wry, observant comedy argues with cogency that marriage is funny as hell...
Peter (Dick Shawn) and Pat (Joan Hackett) enter marriage with eight-ninths of a child, one-tenth of an income, and 999/1,000 of a conviction on Pat's part that she has enough love for the three of them. The infant is not seen but heard, and the squally Eine kleine Nachtmusik rasps on Peter's and Pat's sleep-starved nerves with the first intimation that they are somewhere east of Eden...
...Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett are admirable foils. He paints the clown-husband character with broad vaudevillian brush strokes. She is a comic pointilliste, and her precise inflections of wifeliness dot the brain like a quiver of hatpins. Peterpat sometimes gets enveloped in the vapors of farce, but one deep breath of comic wisdom animates it-marriage is as funny as hell...