Word: hellzapoppin
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...silent film thrived on that catharsis. So did vaudeville, and that Broadway combustion engine of explosive anarchy known as Hellzapoppin. Britain's Monty Python troupe, which opened live at Manhattan's City Center last week, renews that comic tradition, and its success in television, movies and now, onstage, shows that many audiences are parched for it. If there is anything novel about the Pythonites (six men, with extras for this production), it is only that they are practicing comic karate, English-style, and Americans always find it strangely exotic to think of the British as vulgar, irreverent, silly...
With expectations so high, the talks had begun in a kind of unreal, Hellzapoppin' atmosphere. Journalists camped outside the ornate U.S. embassy residence (a former Rothschild mansion), waiting for the American team to emerge. Inside, an uncomfortable-looking Marine-improbably disguised in a Cardin suit-stood guard at the door to Kissinger's bedroom. Early in the week, motorcycle-borne photographers had tracked the negotiators' limousines in a wild cross-country pursuit to their secret meeting place in the Paris exurb of Gif-sur-Yvette: a two-story, tile-roofed villa. A gallery of photographers...
...stillness," Leone signed him up. On location in Spain, the actor more than lived up to expectations: he kept falling asleep between takes. To some, it may have seemed that he fell asleep during takes. "In Italian movies," he later recalled, "they act a lot. They come from the Hellzapoppin' school of drama. To get my effect I stayed impassive, and I guess they thought I wasn't acting...
...almost as if Beckett and Pinter put on Hellzapoppin. Everything and nothing seem to happen, yet a considerable amount of atmosphere is conveyed. The dialogue is arch and flat, absurd and witty. Descriptions are precise and at times chastely beautiful. The scatology is consistently outrageous. Yet it is through Clementine's numerous fornications that The Onion Eaters generates its odd life. The book does not have much meaning, only an animal warmth, at once grotesque and touching. Donleavy seems to be saying that this warmth is the only thing about which we can be certain. "To make the stars...
Hair--A hippie "Hellzapoppin" with a lot of spirit and a nice score firmly based in the vocabulary of early rock. Only when the authors try too hard to explain to our parents what the new culture is all about do things become a little thick. Tom O'Horgan is the director, and the nice cast includes Barry McGuire and the nice Heather MacRae. At the BILTMORE, W. 47th...