Word: vu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...viewers who had watched Paar in the late '50s and early '60s, however, the new Jack Paar was an acute attack of déjà vu. A large dollop of nostalgia was in order, of course, but younger viewers must simply have been dumbfounded by Paar's smorgasbord from the past. Almost all the old faces-living and dead-were there. Peggy Cass sat in as Paar's answer to Ed McMahon, introducing Paar and doing commercials. Genevieve, whose funny French accent Paar discovered, was a guest, along with such other oldtime regulars as Jonathan...
...VU by BOB RANDALL...
...Vu is just such a starveling kitten of a comedy. The title is classified-ad shorthand for an apartment with a river view. The locale is Manhattan. Inspecting the rent-controlled flat are two strangers, Anne (Jane Alexander) and Paul (Jerry Orbach), both married, but with their respective spouses otherwise occupied. A missing doorknob effectively locks them in together...
This is a Fellini movie for people who have never seen a Fellini movie. The images spill in torrents from the screen; the air of a carnival turning into a bacchanal is everywhere. So, alas, is the sense of déjà vu. Fellini has taken us all on this guided tour of his tumid nether world too many times before...
...presence of Yul Brynner, the King in both the play and the movie, only adds to the unfortunate sense of dejd vu. The viewer, no doubt like the star himself, keeps expecting his speeches to end in a song. Gorgeous sets, an even more gorgeous Anna (Samantha Eggar) and a brood of cute Oriental brats seem equally out of place in a show that is nothing more than the standard TV saga of the dumb daddy, the smart mamma and the smarter kids who walk over both of them...