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...script co-authored by a man named Babaloo Mandel can be without its patches of agreeable whimsy. But Ron Howard, who has been acting in sitcoms (The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days) for most of his 28 years, should know more about shaping comic characters, situations and moods than he shows here. Winkler, the Fonz on Happy Days, is pleasantly put-upon here; Michael Keaton, also from TV, is mildly manic; and Shelley Long so resembles Pam Dawber in her squeaky cuteness that one wonders why the producers didn't raid Mork and Mindy for the real thing. Sitcom...
...resonant and trivialities bristle with jeopardy. Episodes of scandal, lunacy and mayhem are drawn together by the two main story lines. A romance between Mario, 18, and Julia, 32, is a mock cliffhanger; the rise and fall of Pedro Camacho, a compulsive writer of soap-opera scripts, is a comic tale with tragic relief...
...from the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater's "Love's Labor's Lost" is surprise that the play is so good. No sooooo good--everything is relative, and it is doubtful that any theater company in the world could keep the parts of the melange of verbosity and near-interchangeable comic types from dragging--but far better than most directors who attempt the play would attest...
...ladies to sue for favor honestly, without resorting to trivial games. The transition to reality and perhaps maturity is completed by the unexpected news of the Princess' father's death, and all eight principals soberly vow faith and various types of atonement, as if ceremoniously renouncing the comic-traditional world that has held them in thrall...
...OTHER CHARACTERS have this opportunity. Not only is there little differentiation among Berowne's three cohorts (played by Nick Wyse, Alex Pearson and Ian White) or among their four lady loves (Robin Driscoll. Alison Carey, Miriam Schmir and Nina Bernstein); to make matters worse, random comic pairs appear at intervals, exchange verbal abuse and eventually band together to present the nobility a pageant of "The Nine Worthies...