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THAT MAN FROM RIO. A stylish French spoof of Hollywood action epics assigns most of the derring-do to Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo, who does it to a turn...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. A stylish French spoof of Hollywood action epics assigns most of the derring-do to Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo, who does it to a turn...
...funeral oration while struggling frantically to hold onto the unwieldy corpse is funnier in promise than performance. On the other hand, when the cast dons wigs and choirboys' surplices for a spastic rock-'n'-roll number called "I Wanna Hold Your Handel," they memorably spoof both the composer and the Beatles, with a blasting hallelujah! yeah! yeah! The evening ends in a British courtroom with a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd farce-trial involving a dwarf that is hilarious enough all by itself to make the show Broadway's Circus Maximus...
THAT MAN FROM RIO. A stylish French spoof of Hollywood epics assigns most of the derring-do to Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo, who does it to a turn...
...Last Analysis, a first play by Novelist Saul Bellow, is part Jewish-family comedy, part psychoanalytical cliché, part spoof of psychoanalysis-and all claptrap. An ex-TV comic known as Bummy (Sam Levene) re-enacts his life from womb to gloom with total traumatic recall, including toilet training, sibling rivalry, and a recurring dream that he shares his bed with a white sow. Says Bummy's lawyer: "He's like a junkie on thought...