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...Walking By," for example, is a skit in three parts which are separated by two other vignettes, "Sex Education" and "Being Here Now." Perhaps this was done to allow time for costume changes, but it only succeeds in robbing the skit of unity and an identifiable theme. "Walking By" traces a little girl (Dominique Ghossein) as she grows from the age when she's too old to play with boys to the age when she's old enough to be hassled by a strange man on the street (Bill Crawford). The question arises whether "Walking By" is supposed...
...annals of entertainment, accompanied by strains of Pomp and Circumstance in the background. After seeing the various members of the two comedy groups frolic about in the London streets outside of Her Majesty's Theatre for a few minutes, the movie cuts to the famous Monty Python dead parrot skit. This sequence reveals the fundamental problem with the movie at the very outset. The group's first full-length motion picture, And Now For Something Completely Different, included this skit, complete with props and the suitable atmosphere of a pet shop. Seeing this skit performed again on the bare stage...
Take Bea Leaguered, for example, a mild-mannered office worker and the heroine of a skit put on by "The 9to5 Players" at a fund-raiser in Boston last week. She is oppressed again and again by wicked bosses. One day her friends take pity on her and present her with a membership in 9to5. Phoenix-like, she rises up out of the typing pool to defeat one discriminatory employer after another--Macho Mutual Insurance Company, Arrogant Women-Proof Publishers, First Bigoted Bank of Boston, Neanderthal University. Will the work of the noble Ms. Leaguered ever be done...
...attempt to shed his dour reputation, Nader in January showed up on TV as host of the zany NBC's Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just fed up with being equated...
...live-action scenes in which a cruel conductor and an overworked animator are shown in contentious collaboration, farcically knocking each other about and sending up the dignified portentousness of Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Commentator Deems Taylor in their portions of the Disney picture. This is strictly high school skit stuff, far below the general level of the animated material it introduces. The effort ill serves the cause of expanding the audience for serious animation beyond the cult level. Unfortunately that is still what it was in 1940, when Disney made his noble effort to suggest the rich possibilities...