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Horace Walpole once said that the world is comic to those who think and tragic to those who feel. I hope you'll agree with me that Horace Walpole somewhat simplifies the world by saying this. Surely both of us think and feel; in regard to what's comic and what's tragic, Mrs. Poole, the world is all mixed up. -Garp...
...Hatfield and McCoy feud between N.Y. and L.A. is fueled at Broadway's Biltmore Theater by Furth's comic sniper fire. In Director Gene Saks' nimble hands, the characters suffer the gauntlet of Pacific perils from mudslides to brushfires to shudderingly mirthful earthquakes. Furth's people are antic and simpatico. Mae (Betty Garrett) has been an offstage mother to her orchestra conductor son since he first brandished a baton. That he is 40 and a bachelor mortifies her, but not as much as having blurted out on a TV interview that he was not a homosexual...
Relaxing after a full evening of what they call "socio-politico-comic commentary (we denigrate all races, creeds, political groups and clothing styles)," Aveson and Krulick reflect on their six-year career on the Cambridge circuit. "We can get away with a lot of stuff here that just wouldn't work anywhere else because of generally limited vocabularies." Aveson says. "Quite true," adds his partner, "This is without a doubt the top of the gutter." Despite a penchant for one-liners and their unusual appearance--Aveson wears most of a tuxedo; Krulick sports dungarees, a baseball shirt...
...This comic opera of marketing has a sequel. In early 1980 two more superpremium ice creams with throat-curdling foreign names hit the eastern market. Frusen Glädjé actually means "frozen delight" in Swedish (with an un-Swedish accent over the final e added for class), and the American owners made the unusual move of incorporating their company in Sweden. Their nectar is manufactured in Utica. Mattus took the non-Swedes to court for what amounted to infringement of balderdash, and his case was thrown out. The other newcomer is Alpen Zauber (German for "alpine magic"), a Brooklyn...
...Heavy, man, heavy." All the fantasies in this animated anthology concern a glowing green meteor that rolls around heaven all day, bringing troubles to all who touch it. These are variously comic, terrifying and erotic (if live actors were seen doing what drawn figures occasionally do here, the picture might have rated an X). But the animation is crude when it is not pretentious; the score, heavily laden with rock music, is positively bellicose; and the truncated tales told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen...