Word: spoof
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Taste, restraint, and precision characterize She Loves Me, notably in the staging of musical numbers by Carol Haney, a stylist of spoof with the wit to be brief. In a wry ballad of self-castigation, Comedienne Barbara Baxley kisses the pleasures of sex and the single girl goodbye while Jack ("Grand Knowing You") Cassidy is the cat's whiskers dipped in cream as the roue who drove her to ruing. Vitally integrated with the book are the lyrics and music of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who have produced a light operatic score in which song follows song...
Died. Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, 86, translator into English of Thomas Mann's works, a sprightly Pennsylvanian who wrote poetry and plays (most notably Abdication, a genteel spoof of Edward VIII) but devoted her serious labors to the German literary giant, beginning in 1924 with Buddenbrooks and thereafter translating most of Mann's books, including the monumental, 2,071-page Joseph and His Brothers; after a long illness; in Princeton...
Morey and Paul's spoof of dupes and quackery is as broad as Goldfarb's beam, and as incisive a tour de force as you could wish. But as the Swami's Woman would say, don't take anybody's word for it. See for yourself...
...sharpest of the Nichols and May nightclub skits, Elaine May does a spoof on a Tennessee Williams heroine who is said to be guilty of "drink, prostitution and puttin' on airs." Last week at the University of Mississippi, a young painter and art teacher was charged with obscenity, indecency and puttin' on art shows...
...round trip to Hollywood without a loss of innocence. This one, a lampoon on the visit of a gyro-pelvic pop singer to Sweet Apple, Ohio, had an apple-cheekiness about it on the stage that seems slightly worm-eaten on film, and the result is more goof than spoof...