Word: slapstickers
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...Stooges are for kids, and whether you liked them or not you're liable to look back at them after fifteen years and see that shapes that fleshed out much of your consciousness when a glimmer of the world first stirred. The Stooges are pure slapstick--they pound each other and never draw blood, they communicate with a cuff and a twist of the ear, they love each other as they fight, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. Getting up from the TV floors when you're five years old and trying to bash your sister with...
...Ford after her cancer operation. Ward was there when Mrs. Ford said goodbye to her son Steve following her mastectomy. He was present at Camp David when Ford decided to coax Liberty, his golden retriever, into the pool. Shooting rapidly, and somehow managing to keep dry, Ward recorded a slapstick sequence as Betty Ford pushed her husband into the water, then Press Secretary Ronald Nessen and Nancy Howe, Mrs. Ford's personal secretary, dunked each other. And in a Truffautesque bit of business, Ward even caught Ford being rigged with electronic paraphernalia for a TV taping session with...
...Crimson to redeem itself it will need to improve on its slapstick performance of Tuesday evening's 95-88 loss to Brandeis "We are a better team than when we last met Princeton and Penn and the guys feel they have a score to even Sanders said...
...haired, tuber-nosed sidekick of Moe and Curly, Larry played an amiable idiot who spent most of his time dodging pies. Veterans of one-and two-reel shorts of the '30s, the Stooges enjoyed an extraordinary revival on TV in the late '50s, when their ham-handed slapstick endeared them to a new generation of children...
...tasteless-certainly he has a four-year-old's overestimation of the comic possibilities in the word doodoo. But when he is good he is splendid, and he is the only commercial American film maker today (with the occasional exception of Woody Allen) working in the low-comedy, slapstick tradition of Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers...