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...does impersonations. He has impersonated a song-and-dance man in the movies (The Eddie Cantor Story), a variety-show M.C. on television (briefly), and a TV producer (also briefly). This last imitation precipitated a ruckus that began at CBS four years ago. Brasselle had sold three programs, sight unseen, to his pal, CBS-TV President James (''The Smiling Cobra") Aubrey. The FCC and Aubrey's CBS bosses thought that this was a little strange, especially since the shows were dogs (The Reporter, The Baileys of Balboa, The Car a Williams Show). In addition, CBS had become...
...second half of the 20th century, the gap be tween wish and denial has often been widened by the very institutions that should provide certainty. Science has bared the mysteries of subatomic particles, and in the process has almost turned into a new metaphysics groping for evidence of things unseen. As organized religion loses its appeal through stuffiness or sterility, people seeking faith increasingly turn to mystical religions, such as Zen and Zoroastrianism...
...scores come from having to assimilate myriads of reactions and concepts and then to apply them to unseen situations and even irrelevant ones. Furthermore since the backbone or organic chemistry is synthesis one must be able to synthesize theoretically anything that comes up. This requires a photographic memory rather than understanding. For those who are taking the course for a third time all things are possible, for the novice the course is hell...
...when it gets out of shape, take Alka-Seltzer." Along Madison Avenue, the film became an instant classic. Among Alka-Seltzer's latest, and best, is the cartoon of a man and his disgruntled but lovable-looking tummy seated in separate chairs, hashing out their troubles before an unseen marriage counselor. It ought to be revolting, but it isn't. The drawing style has some of the wonderful, way-out whimsy of Thurber and the deceptive, squiggly-line bite of Jules Feiffer, while the dialogue is reminiscent of an Elaine May-Mike Nichols routine...
...film owes its comic force to two stars-one visible, the other unseen. Walter Matthau, with his loping, sloping style, mangled grin and laugh-perfect timing, may well be America's finest comic actor. And Playwright Neil Simon occasionally takes off his clowns' masks to show the humans beneath. In doing so, he has made his Odd Couple real people, with enough substance to cast shadows alongside the jokes...