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Dodderers & Bashi-Bazouks. In the Mirror, Bill Connor staunchly defended his handiwork: "My denunciation was harsh and bitter, for those were the harshest and bitterest days in a thousand years of our history." He disclosed that the script had even been criticized as "too mild" by a man with a reputation "more weighty than that of the author of Vile Bodies"-Winston Churchill himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse...
...fact, U.S. and British post-mortems showed Wodehouse to have been unwise rather than unpatriotic. His political savvy, say friends, could comfortably be compressed in an aspirin bottle. The script of the controversial broadcasts, finally published in London's monthly Encounter in 1954, smacked more of Lower Smattering-on-the-Wissel than upper Silesia (where Wodehouse spent some time in a prison that had once been an insane asylum). Plainly, Wodehouse said nothing to support the Allied picture of the Nazis as brutes and sadists. During his stay in jail, Wodehouse reported, he had written a novel, read...
...Three, an East-West satire set in West Berlin and based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...
Guest director for this American Shakespeare Festival production is Word Baker. Aurally, the result is almost consistently delightful. But Baker is evidently afraid to let the play pull its own oar; and he has done his best to scuttle the script by piling on a lot of irrelevant and irreverent stage gimmicks and by juxtaposing costumes that clash in both style and period...
...crime lingo favored throughout the movie, Joyce says: "It was a cinch the pump jockey'd give you fuzz an eyeball description of the wagon," meaning that the filling-station attendant was certain to give the cops a full description of the stolen car. Pretty soon, as the script commands, she "tantalizingly presses her body against the deputy's and eases his own gun from its holster. The movement of her shirt rubbing against him opens the front revealingly." "See?" she asks tauntingly. "You should've searched me. You kinda missed something, didn't you, copper...