Word: wit
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...film, a cinema verite record of the group's tour by Albert and David Maysles, is a brisk rough sketch of A Hard Day's Night, which the boys started making later that month. Same dashing from train to limo to photo op to TV stage. Same use of wit as armor against imprisonment and ennui. And the same amazing display of grace and good humor by four blithe Liverpudlians, ages 20 to 24. Leaving their hotel room to go to the Peppermint Lounge, they wave a sweet goodbye to the two-man camera crew. Did celebrity ever take such...
...creature of indefatigable show-biz sizzle. In this expansion of the Saturday-morning show, Spot follows his boy Leonard to Florida, where Spot means to submit to the genetic-engineering experiments of Dr. Ivan Krank (Kelsey Grammer). The script, by Cheers vets Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, has a whirligig wit, and 11 songs crammed into its 67 minutes: that's more melodic content than in most Broadway musicals...
...lives again, pristinely restored. Any fan can argue with the choices - why not more Clampett stuff? where is Tex Avery!? - but not with the hours of cogent analysis and interviews. They show that what the front office dismissed as kid stuff was, in reality, the greatest sustained burst of wit in American movie history...
...their true tales of movie work. Dunne generally preferred the passionate "bullies" to the "smoothies," smiling as they measure your rib cage for a shiv. He often found, of all things, civility and honor in the movie game. And his portraits of it are unsurpassed in their dry wit, understated truthfulness and lasting, corrective value...
...Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing But the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films he often chaperoned showier stars (Anthony Quinn in Zorba the Greek, Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl, Bette Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed him to dominate. He radiated silky malevolence in Harold Pinter...