Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND: THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW (Elektra). Few forms of music sound more authentic than lowdown blues, and Butterfield's band provides a refreshing collection of wild wails about oldtime, alltime troubles. While the style is no newer than the subjects, it is good to hear young musicians who have rediscovered the compelling mournfulness of harmonicas, saxophones and on-key melodies...
...PRODUCERS. A wild, ad-lib energy that explodes in a series of sight gags and punch lines makes this saga of two sleazy stage producers (Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder) uproariously funny for at least half its running time, after which Mel Brooks the writer fails Mel Brooks the director by slipping into something sentimental...
...opening reception of the Governors' Conference. Rockefeller and Wife Happy made a suitably late entrance at 8 p.m. and immediately dominated the scene. Newsmen and politicians alike scrambled toward the couple as if Rockefeller had not only announced but won. Connecticut Governor John Dempsey got lacerated by a wild camera. Rockefeller gallantly dabbed the blood from Democrat Dempsey's brow with his handkerchief...
What happens when you fling together a dozen wild young comedy writers, throw in a bunch of nuts right off the funny farm, and toss a friendly little riot? You get a wild, nutty riot of laughs...
...other hand, brute honesty is not particularly indicated; this is not an Ibsen's Wild Duck situation. You listen to something and you try to respond more or less the way you feel, within the bounds of judgment. You don't tell the patient, "We won't talk about that because I'm scared." What you might say is, "That's kind of a frightening idea." He may be frightened...