Word: humorâ
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...WERE YOUR BIG COMIC INFLUENCES? My biggest by far?besides my mother, who had an incredibly dark sense of humor???was Robert Benchley, a humor essayist. I always wanted to write like him. He was silly, and that appealed to me, that a grownup could be that silly and get away with...
...work on the script is her wittiest since A New Leaf: she has spiked a sentimental story with misanthropic jokes about money, marriage and adultery that are not in the old film. Grodin and Cannon, who have May's sharpest lines, give impeccable, dry comic performances. Some of the humor???involving batty butlers and rough football players?is knockabout, but the gags never go on too long...
Perhaps the best hope in dealing with the erotic explosion is that the crassest, most commercial panderers will be curbed by law; beyond this, in legitimate arts and entertainment, a public sense of taste?and humor???will act as the best censor and restore some balance. Gresham's law does not necessarily apply to literature, theater or cinema. The bad drives out the good only temporarily. The point has been made briefly: anything can be shown. Now perhaps the time has come to remember that not everything has to be shown...
...measuring an enemy was not the same as measuring a friend. Kennedy found Nikita Khrushchev in good humor???at least on the surface. Khrush was ready to trade quips and toasts?but not a bit interested in making concessions on issues. If Khrush has a telling weakness, Kennedy seemed not to have found...
Editor Leamy decided to keep his editorial matter?essays, fiction, humor??? consistent with the oldtime Mentor, but to deck out the material with capable, sometimes racy, illustration. Although the magazine's circulation reached 85,000, it became apparent that it would never pull in harness with its whopping big Crowell team-mates?Woman's Home Companion, Collier's, The Country Home (onetime Farm & Fireside), The American Magazine ? whose combined circulation is over...