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This is not to say that Little Me is not still funny, but one tends to laugh at it more than with it. In the original, Belle's many lovers and husbands were all played by Sid Caesar in a performance of virtuosic hilarity. Here they are divided between James Coco and Victor Garber. Garber is the rich little rich boy who first stirs Belle's precocious nubility. Coco, a clown in the grand lineage of Bert Lahr, is wonderfully funny throughout, especially as a Teutonic film director with a disconcerting resemblance to Benito Mussolini...
...fortune. He really doesn't. He's very easy to live with-I'm the maniac. I liven him up; he calms me down. Joe doesn't say a lot, but whatever he does say is interesting, thoughtful. He's funny-he makes me laugh. Still, I sometimes think that if he played football the way he conducts his life-well, he just wouldn't be a football player. He's not a leader. 'What makes you so different out there?' I've asked him. He stutters and stammers around...
...attention of millions; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Conried was celebrated for his skillful use of accents: a villainous Nazi in early films, a zany Bulgarian sculptor in the Broadway musical Can-Can, a sheepish professor on radio's My Friend Irma. "Give me a laugh onstage," said Conried, "and I am like a tiger who has tasted blood...
...weekly blurb at the end of the CBS news show "60 Minutes" range from the obvious and dull to the obtuse and dull. People who think Andy Rooney is really funny are the kind of people who read Erma Bombeck, people who subscribe to Good Housekeeping, who still laugh at jokes about the Ayatollah Khomeini and the high price of gasoline...
...children are excited; they are about to perform a few of their folk dances. Some older boys are shooting baskets on a hard dirt court. They laugh in surprise when the American visitor blocks a shot. They did not know that defense was part of the game...