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...Writer-Director Marshall Brickman, making his first film after honorable service as Woody Allen's writing collaborator, brings it off. He blends accomplished directorial technique with writing that is slyly funny and acute in its social commentary. If, perhaps, the film lacks the punctuation that a big comic sequence would provide-something like the chase scene with the dictator's nose in Allen's Sleeper-it is consistently energetic, inventive and, above all, intelligent...
...cannot help admiring Brickman's comic discipline, his refusal to make heavyhanded attacks. He is a car om-shot artist, deft and softspoken, and an actor's director as well. Arkin comes closer than ever before to breaking through the reserve that sometimes straitjackets his unquestionable comic technique. Judy Graubart is winning as his realistic girlfriend. The guys at the lab- Austin Pendleton, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright and Jayant-manage to satirize every imaginable form of intellectual hubris. Their cause is a worthy one, and so is their director's debut...
DIED. Chester H. Lauck, 78, co-star with Norris Goff of the Lum and Abner radio series, which dealt with the comic doings of a pair of country storekeepers in Pine Ridge, Ark., and during its long run (1931-55) won a nationwide audience that was second in size only to Amos and Andy; of cancer; in Hot Springs...
...cent), Robert L. "Elect the Last President and Give America Parliamentary Government" Kelleher (113 votes), and the anti-Communist ticket of Billy Joe Clegg and Auburn Lee Pack-wood of Springfield, Mo. (188 votes). This year, Ronald Reagan's paltry attempts at humor will have to provide the comic relief...
...zookeeper (Daniel Shor) in search of an animalistic deity, an evangelical merchandising expert (Ned Beatty) and some sex-starved belles (Amy Wright, Mary Nell Santacroce). Huston has great affection for these people, even if Hazel does not: the misfits are celebrated not only for their lunacies but for their comic inability to square their passions with normal spiritual or temporal ambitions. About Hazel, however, Wise Blood is dead serious. In his own topsy-turvy, blasphemous and finally violent way, he is headed toward salvation. He ends up closer to God than his grandfather would have dared...