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...there is one parodist who seldom needs to wield this club over a self-anesthetized audience. Ira Wallach, who proved his wit in his "Hopalong Freud" series, has a new book, called "Gutenberg's Folly...
Subtitled "The Literary Debris of Mitchel Hackney," Wallach's new one is especially funny because of its novel gimmick. Hackney, says Wallach, is one of the great unsung literati of our era, great because he managed to do everything years before it was done by the person we credit with doing it. Hackney, for instance, out Saroyaned Saroyan and out-Bellowed Saul Bellow, and did it first. "Gutenberg's Folly" is therefore a labor of love: dying from a surfeit of chopped liver canapes, Hackney willed Wallach his wife and his work...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Brownstone, with Kim Stanley, Janice Rule, Eli Wallach...
...terms, i.e., the playwright never reveals whom he is rooting for. This has proved dismaying to Broadway audiences in the past because, though relishing a good fight between right and wrong, U.S. playgoers prefer to know which is which. Opposed in the turn-of-the-century plot are Eli Wallach, a young man top-heavy with virtue, and his wife Julie Harris, who cannot see why he must do everything the hard way when the easy way is so much more fun. Called up for military service, Wallach nobly refuses to seek deferment, even though it means he must reluctantly...
Condemning the "Yok" jokes of the modern school, Wallach spoke against the "Hooper rating approach to humor." Humor, if it is genuine, must create enemies as well as friends. The humorits, he said, "must have their own concept of reality, and must defend...