Word: tati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacular of the week starred Steve Allen, Judy Holliday and France's top pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep...
Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Fanfare, with Judy Holliday, French Comedian Jacques Tati, Frank Sinatra...
Jour de Fête (Fred Orain; Mayer-Kingsley) transplants some Mack Sennett pratfalls to the French provinces. The center of this slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...
This tenuous little spoof-on-a-bicycle is no weightier than a postcard, and its contents are no more momentous. But in the sprightly pantomiming of Actor Tati (who also directed and co-authored the screenplay), the picture occasionally seems to be arriving by special delivery...
...Tati-Tati is no long-lost masterpiece, but with Gania Borodin's appealing little theme blown, bowed and bonged in a dozen modes and moods, it has plenty of charm. Like Papa Borodin's own Prince Igor, it could make some choreographer a first-rate ballet score...