Word: witlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging playwrights. At a pseudo-lyric funeral, a group mourns the loss of their blowhard leader. A new con-mannerist appears, spouting worthless dreams, and they all follow him off in a witless parody of resurrection...
Freaks is witless. Sensitive acting by the midget Frieda (whom Browning often shoots in romantic soft-focus closeup) and several shots in the climactic sequence, are the film's only twitches of life...
Like its promotion, the picture is witless and pointless. Worse, it is also sexless. In the title role of a bored sub urban housewife, Anne Jackson prattles endlessly to the camera about love and commuting, but never manages to make a connection with the audience or her fellow players. As an oversated movie-star seducer, Walter Matthau-unglamorous, unamorous and unfunny -galumphs around with his shirt off, revealing a physique as saggy as the script. A busy actor these days, Matthau also stars in a current box-office hit, The Odd Couple (TIME, May 3). Thus, in a single season...
...rely on our traditional horse sense rather than on witless emotions. High politics are high politics. Whether or not any of us accepts or is angered by General de Gaulle's course is completely divorced from our area as U.S. visitors. France will always be France. Its citizenry, in massive majority, will always extend an openhearted welcome to us. Its treasure of cultural and hedonistic glories will always be matchless...
...have a dismal evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch...