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...scenes and a hearse-to-hearse search for missing bodies. Among the grimly gay daguerrotypes at hand are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as a pair of craven city cousins. Peter Sellers, as a sawbones who specializes in questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal family retainer so pickled in alcohol that-whatever the charge-he is ready to swear the butler did it. The vogue for sick screen comedy has obviously fallen into capable hands. Softened by the ruddy glow of the gaslight era, Wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Grave Fun | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfrid Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records: Sep. 10, 1965 | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

SQUARE'S PROGRESS by Wilfrid Sheed. 309 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Hipmanship | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...clear-eyed innocents, imprisoned by fame behind a whimsically improbable wall of wailing nymphets, but never for a moment blinded to the really flagrant foolishness of the adult world around them. Representing the dangers of creeping maturity is a low-comedy menace identified as Paul's granddad (Wilfrid Brambell). Though everyone remarks how clean he looks, Granddad is patently a lecherous old billygoat and a born troublemaker. His ultimate mischief is to persuade Ringo to defect from show biz to the outside world-a disaster certain to deprive the cream of Britain's youth of any reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeah? Yeah. Yeah!: Yeah? Yeah. Yeah! | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who realizes, with horror, that he is losing his sincerity and developing writer's cramp in the smug swamps of suburbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 15, 1963 | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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