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...Christ, I can't imagine," says his friend, Producer Sid Krassman. But soon Sid has wrung three million out of the tourist-starved principality of Liechtenstein to help finance the monstrosity and assured the rest by signing up Angela Sterling, "the highest-paid darling of the silver screen - nailing a cool one and a quarter big ones per pic, plus ten percent of the boxoroonie, going...
...sideswipes are nearly as crude as his characters and just as exuberant. His ear for trade talk is perfect. The book bristles with monstros, nifties and thesps used, but never overused, at moments of shattering incongruity. Though he really has no new targets, Southern can skewer venality- as Producer Sid would put it- seven ways to Sunday...
...nothing else, TV offered the elaborate spoofs of Sid Caesar's Show of Shows. Mort Sahl, carrying a rolled-up newspaper like a blunt weapon, had set almost academic standards for the stand-up comedian as social critic. Lenny Bruce, Salvationist manque, was preaching his credo of holy scatology and apocalypse, "trying to panic people into laughing," as Sahl...
Archie Smith plays the father. Nat Miller, like a suddenly-animated wooden Indian trying to imitate Groucho Marx. Kay Doubleday as the mother would make Mrs. Portnoy cringe, she is so solicitous. Sid Davis, as the uncle of the central character, Richard, should come across as a lovable man condemned by his own weakness from ever obtaining the woman he loves. George Ede makes him the back-slapping traveling salesman of a dozen stale farmer's daughter jokes...
...Aging Stars Alex Delvecchio and Gordie Howe among them-had been used too sparingly. They were incensed when Detroit's Gary Unger cheerily admitted on TV that the team had stayed up late the night before the final game, celebrating its own play-off berth. Red Wing Coach Sid Abel, looking ahead to the playoffs, did nothing to soothe Montreal: "Why should I tell my guys to go out there and bang their heads against the wall? I can rest my players if I want to. That's my prerogative...