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...HEADSMAN'S BLOCK is hardly the ideal centerpiece for a comic opera, but The Yeomen of the Guard is hardly the ideal comic opera. Rife with unlikable characters and uninventive contrivances, this odd Gilbert and Sullivan number is rightfully among the rarely revived. The Harvard Gilbert & Sullivan Players have an obligation to give due attention to each of Sir William and Sir Arthur's works, however, and their spring production is an able and ultimately entertaining attempt at presenting the eleventh of the duo's 14 operettas...
...embodiment of big-city scrappiness, a mean-streets survivor who got ahead on a good grin, good moves and better hustle. To a generation of comic impressionists, Jimmy Cagney's mannerisms became part of the standard repertoire: the tough-guy, tommy-gun chatter, the feinted jab to convey affection (first aimed at Loretta Young in Taxi) and the square-shouldered bantam-cock strut. Public Enemy, White Heat and his other classic gangster movies traded on what he fondly called "my gutter quality." But in more than 60 films, the last of them a made-for-TV movie that aired...
...customers who bought a LAUB FOR MAYOR shirt for $11.95. All of which has made grand entertainment for the camera crews and reporters drawn to Carmel from France, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and points between. The race has even become the target of a running satire in the comic strip Doonesbury. The media blitz is one of the things that prompted Mayor Townsend to call the approaching vote, only half in jest, "the second most important election this year, after the Philippines...
...with charming irony but it never disguises the fact that the violence and frustration of this small section of the world is mounting. Throughout the film, the unlucky players seem to be heading ever more quickly toward disaster. Kureishi's lively, compassionate script and Frears' steady direction provide some comic relief and, just as important, wise and unblearyeyed condemnations...
AMONG THE INTERESTING disease tables, the perennial favorites, the Tourette's Table and the Incontinent Table, will be matched only by the stilted, jerky rapport of the Narcolepsy Table for pure comic potential. Most fascinating of all will be the fiery spectacle of the Spontaneous Combustion Table. And for those interested in a more somber dining experience, over in the darkest corner of the dining hall, all by itself, and covered with a lumpy burlap sack, will be the Elephant Table...