Word: slapstick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comic Bergman comes as rather an odd twist to those who have been brought up on Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal. It is hard to conceive of the careful perpetrator of Gothic terror making effective use of slapstick--yet this is exactly what he does in the funniest scenes of the film. At one point (in one of many flashbacks) the young gynecologist interrupts his best friend's wedding with the news that he is going to marry his best friend's betrothed. The action begins with a furniture-throwing brawl between the bride elect and her drunken groom...
Seven Vivas. Eisenhower's arrival in Brazil almost turned into a slapstick comedy worthy of the Marx brothers. When the big presidential jet, Air Force One, set down at the airport of the unfinished capital city of Brasilia, a ground crew began unrolling a huge red carpet, miscalculated the distance and arrived at the ramp of the plane with a dismaying roll left over. For a moment it looked as though the President of the U.S. might have to hurdle the carpet before he set foot on Brazilian soil, but an enterprising MATS ground crewman saved the situation...
Died. Manuel Jimenez, 33, jaunty, slapstick Spanish matador who spiced up his bullfights with so many daring stunts (his favorite: making a pass without looking at the bull) that the Spanish public considered him the matador most likely to die in the ring; in an airline crash at Montego Bay, Jamaica, that killed 36 others (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...