Word: slapstickers
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Drunken Bandleader. It was a momentous decision. "Practically all the comedy shows owe their structure to Benny's conceptions," admitted Comedian Fred Allen. "The Benny show was like a One Man's Family in slapstick. He was the first comedian in radio to realize that you could get big laughs by ridiculing yourself instead of your stooges...
...Grace's pretty speeches are greeted with yawns, a tender love scene is made ridiculous by farcical staging, and the whole cast takes turns shamelessly mugging in asides to the audience. As the faded beau, Donald Sinden transparently masks an egoist's will of steel with extravagant slapstick. He is matched by the Grace of Polly Adams, who makes what could have been a most tiresome ingenue into a bright and funny human being. ∙Gina Mallet
...Died. Pietro Germi, 60, Italian film director (Divorce-Italian Style; Seduced and Abandoned; Alfredo, Alfredo); of liver disease; in Rome. Germi's Academy Award-winning Divorzio in 1961 was the first of a series of films that marked him as a superb tragicomedian who manufactured social slapstick from the hypocrisies of Italian...
...Franciscans use public transport by arriving for a performance of The Daughter of the Regiment on a bus. Then oldtime Upstager Hermione Gingold, 77, made her operatic debut in the tiny role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp and turned what should have been a brief appearance into a runaway slapstick turn. Finally, some 3,552 emotional fans gave Soprano Beverly Sills an ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after major but successful cancer surgery, and Sills was making the first of five performances scheduled for the next two weeks. She was 40 Ibs. lighter...
...some day collapse, taking his work down with them. A number of pieces in Guilty Pleasures are predicated on Richard Nixon, and their bite has already become gummy. One of the book's funnier stories (An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware) overcomes this loss through shameless slapstick. George Washington postpones his rowboat crossing until hearing whether Congress will continue to finance his personal extravagances. Speaking in an age when the printed s looked like an f, an aide informs the general that demands for his horse's accommodations have been rejected: "Both the Houfe Appropriation Committee...