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...Belle Americaine. A running gag about U.S. automobiles that sometimes stalls but usually crowds the speed limit; written, directed and acted by Robert (La Plume de Ma Tante) Dhery, a French comedian who is rapidly emerging as a sort of tatty Tati...
...moviegoers with merriment. At the wheel is Robert Dhéry, a 40-year-old writer-director whose Broadway revue of 1958, La Plume de Ma Tante, is still humming along on the road. If he rolls on at this rate, he will soon be giving the incomparable Jacques Tati (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) a run for the funny money on the art film circuit...
...wild flowers. He proceeded to the Olympia Music Hall, where his jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati and wandered off to find late-evening brandy with his jazzmen and some 50 new fans...
...Gleason who speaks restaurant French, when Jackie asked what one might call "a poor soul who just sort of lambs around." The trouble is that Russell was too literal-minded; gigot means merely "leg of mutton," and bilingual Frenchmen are wondering in some puzzlement whether Americans would laugh if Tati, for instance, made a movie in the U.S. and called himself "Rolled Rib Roast...
...Love Game (inFrench). Jean-Pierre Cassel, playing a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan, emerges as the funniest Frenchman since Tati's Hulot...