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BLACKFACE is out; homos are in. Everywhere homosexuals are in. On the stage, they have become the sixties' equivalent of minstrel show niggers. Yes, fellas, step right up and see 'em smile, see 'em singin' and dancin,' and jokin' too, lawdy how they do joke! And laff! How they laff...
...Negro has endured Little Rock and Selma; he will survive Missitucky, the mythological country of Finian's Rainbow. There, on a beaming day, a father (Fred Astaire) and his daughter (Petula Clark) wander into a valley where white and cullud folks are jes a-sittin' and a-singin' and a-waitin' for somethin' to happen. Nothin' does. A leprechaun (Tommy Steele) wanders in, a lot of galvanic twitching goes on in the name of choreography, and eventually a white-supremacist Senator (Keenan Wynn) gets changed into a Negro. At the end, when everybody joins...
...Janet Blair), Dad (Buddy Ebsen) and eight kids so durn sweet you could eat 'em up, cep'n they'd cause diabetes. Wai, 'fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout me, 'bout us, 'bout we") and pronouncin' just about ev-erythin' on the fust syllable: Ree-pub-lican, convention, Yew-nited States, till you'd like to die gagging at some of the laffs...
...wouldn't you know someone'd turn up and ruin it all? He's John Davidson, a singin' journalist-they're the wust kind-who finds the shiny-eyed eldest daughter (Lesley Ann Warren) to his likin'. Trouble is, the boy's a Ree-publican, and Democrat Grandpa finds him ree-voltin' Eventually Davidson talks the family into drivin' their folks' wagon on down to his home in Dakota, but that don't make no never mind. It's feudin' and fightin' soon's they...
...singin' his song...