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...cold, businesslike attitude to everything, especially love. The trouble is that the movie itself never rises above the crass except briefly, with the street musicians. It's a really great shame the feature had to be so bad this week, since the Brattle has acquired a classic Donald Duck cartoon that shouldn't be missed...
...basic quaintsmanship. From ABC's Margie (1920s flapper) to CBS's Father of the Bride, the other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught in an NBC series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears of her boss's clients. The Joey Bishop Show (NBC) presents its deadpan comic star as a small-time flack who is not as slick or tricky as the world around him. But the whole show is a little...
...curse is almost taken off these caricatures by Director Howard Da Silva, who treats the entire play as an animated cartoon strip. Actor-Playwright Davis stirs up intermittent fun with a flamboyantly well-paced performance and some sharp wisecracks, e.g., "You are a disgrace to the Negro profession." The plot hinges (and the hinge often creaks) on an attempt to trick Cap'n Cotchipee out of $500 so that Purlie can buy back Big Bethel Church and "preach freedom in the cotton patch...
...Alvin Show (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of a cartoon series featuring chipmunks Alvin, Theodore and Simon. In the first episode they encounter Stanley, an oddball eagle who cannot...
When hostility to Castro mounted in this country, Matthews came in for a disproportionate share of the retrospective blame. The National Review carried what he himself admits is a clever cartoon, showing a happy Castro saying "I got my job through the New York Times." The attack on Matthews was far from humorous, however. The Eastland-Dodd Committee questioned his failure to warn of the Communist potential in Castro's movement. The author's primary concern, therefore, is self-defense, and he argues passionately, if not eloquently, that truth in a Revolutionary situation is not absolute but relative...