Word: slapstick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. Groucho Marx, 74, most durable of slapstick's famed brothers; by Edna Marx, 38, his third wife; on grounds of mental cruelty; after 15 years of marriage, in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: $21,000 alimony, $337,000 from Groucho's TV residuals and 50% of the proceeds from the sale of their $350,000 home...
...squabbling couple who believe mistakenly that the wife's mother has died. The husband, played by Lloyd Schwartz, is hilarious as he rips off a string of consoling euphemisms and "There There's" about poor dear sweet mama "passing on ." The play stiffened a little bit from being slapstick and almost too fast to handle intelligently-but everybody laughed a lot so who cares...
...anti-hero extravaganza for a high school audience. Like a Charlie Chaplin movie, it serves up heaps of comedy and mayhem. The result is mostly successful. Director George Roy Hill has taken a tired theme (the outlaw as folk hero) and maintained it on a very high level of slapstick...
Their troubles seem unreal alongside the slapstick that went before. Instead of a jolting contrast between violence and comedy, as in Bonnie and Clyde, we have an annoying contrast between soap opera and farce. Violence may be akin to farce, but too much violence is confusing. The glorification of the outlaw's life, only partly tongue-in-check, also weakens the humor. The film subtly encourages the puerile anti-hero-worship it meant to spoof...
...those who opposed the resolution were sincere in their protestation that they wanted to make the "most effective" statement against the war, they might have arranged some better way of putting themselves on private record once the formal vote was past. As it was, the slapstick convocation only reinforced the sense of disorder and confusion. If the turbulent meetings of the last nine months have shown nothing else, they have proved how much the Faculty needs sweeping legislative reform...