Word: vaudevillian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them-take on the American medical profession. In the rude manner of Paddy Chayefsky's Hospital, House Calls suggests that doctors spend more time thinking about tax shelters and fancy cars than surgical procedures or professional ethics. The film's one outright hilarious character, played with vaudevillian relish by Art Carney, is a chief of surgery so senile that he says good morning to empty hospital stairwells...
...MATHER HOUSE Drama Society's production of the play updates the action to the Paris of the 1920s. This seems to be a device to allow for several vaudevillian dance numbers, easy costuming and great jazz interlude music from a three piece combo led by Anthony Patera on piano...
Funny Girl. It's been a long, long time As I remember, the first half of this film a movie biography of vaudevillian Fanny Brice, shines and dazzles; very upbeat, very funny, the perfect showcase for the kitschy comic charms of its star, Barbara Streisand. But toward the middle the story starts to dim, at first imperceptibly, then markedly, until it has receded into a depressing and self-indulgent darkness. I am left with two images. One is of Barbara Streisand's overripe features mugging and straining as young Fanny auditions for her first show. Hilarious The other...
...touch the heart, but he also smothers its beat in interminable bouts of rhetoric. If a character says, "We are all in this together," rest assured you have not heard the line for the last time. He can achieve piercing moments of self-revelation, only to resort to vaudevillian bits of bawdry or sink into bathos...
...Chapter Two, the belated diversionary tactic is to have Brother Leo and Jennie's best friend Faye Medwick (Ann Wedgeworth) indulge in a teasy, vaudevillian, near adulterous liaison. Wedgeworth is a lispy, New Yorky clown with Valentine's Day on the brain, and her performance is as impeccable as her body is scannable. Not to scant the men. It will take the year or so that their contracts have to run to find adequate replacements for the richly gifted Hirsch and Gorman...