Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Here is the distinctive feature of Wisconsin's urbanization: much less of the population concentrates in a few large urban centers than is true of the rest of America. In other words, Wisconsin is urban but not highly metropolitan. Wisconsin-born Thornton Wilder captured the flavor of the state in Our Town, although he indelicately set the play in New Hampshire...
...Wilder) uproariously funny for at least half its 88-min. running time, after which Mel Brooks the writer fails Mel Brooks the director by slipping into something sentimental...
...Charlie Chan features and serials. There were also such spin-offs as a comic strip, a radio show and a short-lived TV series. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which is more accustomed to honoring film giants such as Jean-Luc Godard, Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, opened a Charlie Chan festival that will exhume 23 of his movies, most of which are familiar to late-show devotees...
...others with nothing to do but accept their various prizes: George F. Kennan for his Memoirs: 1925-1950, Edna and Howard Hong for their translation of Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, and Publisher Cass Canfield, who accepted the National Book Award in fiction on be half of Thornton Wilder, author of The Eighth Day. Old Pro Wilder, 70, vacationing in Italy, did not feel moved to come home...
...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...