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AMERICAN HUMOR traditionally smells of liquor. There is no comic worthy of the Chateau de Ville who doesn't do a drunk routine, staggering, his speech slurring, his audience howling. But new markets are always opening up; in the last decade, dope has starred in a number of movies. Rarely has it played a bigger role than in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, the touching story of three men, half a dozen women, and a duffle bag of marijuana...
...cheerful lunacy. Its style is basic collegiate raunch (imagine a disciplined Animal House or a frugal 1941). Its plot is an admitted rip-off of an even earlier example of the imperiled-airliner genre, 1957's Zero Hour. What is particular to the new film is its jostling comic inventiveness and pitch-black humor. The pilot and co-pilot (Peter Graves and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) are stricken, in flight, by food poisoning. There is another pilot (Robert Hays) aboard, but having led his squadron into disaster during combat, he is afraid to fly. Before finally agreeing to land...
This bastard son of Monty Python's Life of Brian had possibilities: Dudley Moore, fresh from his conquest of Bo Derek, plays Herschel, a comic biblical figure who never quite made it into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should...
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...likeness. The ruling had quick impact. In New York, where the widows of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were suing three companies for exploiting the images of the comedy pair, a federal judge took his cue from the Dracula decision. He barred the firms from merchandising products like comic books, and liquor bottles shaped in the forms of the actors, and ruled that the plaintiffs should receive a sum of money to be fixed after a future hearing. Says Lucille Hardy Price: "I was deprived of $10,000 to $20,000 annually for about ten years...