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Stop the World remains offensive to this day, in its use of sexual and national stereotypes and in its heavy-handed symbolism. (The "Figure of Death," dressed in a long black robe, drops in every now and then to disrupt the circus-like goings on.) It is a hard show to like for its own sake. But the current Mather House production succeeds in making Stop the World both enjoyable and ultimately moving, in spite of itself...
School Committee elections never generate much excitement, a strange contrast to the committee's meetings--where accusations fly in an atmosphere that has been described by members as "a nice little circus" and "a crazy zoo." Members generally divide into two warring factions, the liberals against the independents and the mayor, who serves ex-officio as a seventh member, often deciding the outcome. Politics get in the way of decision-making, as both sides accuse the others of opposing an idea merely because their side did not think of it first...
...hourly, you must have stopped and asked yourself, "Can this really be my life?" So you think you're confused? Think how Littlechap the Everyman hero of Stop the World I Want to Get Off, opening tonight at Mather House, feels: he watches his life pass from inside a circus arena. Littlechap travels to Russia, to Germany, to success in America at the top of a company; he becomes deeply involved with four women who bear a strange resemblance to each other. But instead of finding happiness at the end of his journey, Littlechap realizes that he has never really...
...contact with the higher-up and faith in his fundamental good sense. Carl Reiner's low-keyed direction avoids some obvious errors. Once Denver begins preaching the latest word from on high, the media get interested, and there is an opportunity to make the customary comments on the circus aspects of overnight celebrity. But Reiner makes the point lightly. Heavy preachment is just not his style. The result is a movie that tugs at your arm instead of blasting in your ear. Oh, God! is a nice movie about some nice people who have been made in the image...
...There's a little bit of the child in all of us; we all want to be in the circus," says Actress Betty White, who gets her wish in an upcoming Circus of Stars. White's ringmates in the December CBS-TV special will include Actors Peter Fonda and Richard Roundtree and Jack Ford. White is teamed up with a camel. "Working with animals is a lot easier than working with some actors," she said after the taping. Did she feel upstaged? "Heavens no. I'd much rather see an animal act up there than some tired...