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...start assembling onstage. Waldo Chatterway, a society gossip who has spent the past 25 years cultivating the "tall poppies" of Continental royalty, decides to move back to his native London for good. He visits his longtime friend Severus Egg, "the last of the romantic poets," who retains a malicious wit and the conviction, in his mid-70s, that "I have survived into the era of the goody-goodies." Egg, naturally, has a black valet and factotum named Bacon...
...Travesties is not a travesty of drama, but its not high comedy either. Bring your notebook on WWI culture and a good portion of patience, and you'll get a good helping of learned wit in return. But if you want easy-to-appreciate comedy, or at least something with a faster pace, you'd better check elsewhere this weekend...
...free-love guru known as Jones volunteers to help young Kate shed her virginity. She agrees in principle but falls asleep before the sexual samaritan finishes an overripe lecture on fecundity in nature. Simon's frankness is never gratuitous. A description of her own mistakes combines arm's-length wit with sobering historical detail: "My first was a New Jersey abortion, the result of drinking deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs or other, to roll on the grass in a nearby park." On the procedure itself: "The man, whose...
...Northumberland's wayward son, Guilford, is solely responsible for the film's comedic angle. A frequent client at all of greater London's bars, bawdy houses, and brothels, the unscrupulous Guilford would seem the least likely martimonial candidate for the solemn and studious Jane. Thanks to the wry wit of screenwriter Edgar, Guilford is never at a loss for words. Countering his nervous bride-to-be's request that they live "as cousins," Guilford tells her that when he was informed of the marriage he was "sampling the pleasures of a certain lady of the evening...
...vice-presidential candidate caught many Filipinos off guard. Last month when Marcos endorsed Cabinet Bill No. 7, calling the Feb. 7 election, Tolentino was among the first to label the contest unconstitutional because Marcos refuses to resign before the vote is held. Last week the feisty Tolentino, whose quick wit and muscular physique belie his age, found a new position. "If the Supreme Court rules the bill unconstitutional, then there will be no election," he said. "If it doesn't, there will be (an election), and we have to support the Supreme Court to defend the constitution...