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Donen has animated the songs with great skill, and knows exactly how and when to play a number big, and at just what point simplicity will best carry it. There is at least one show-stopper-a song and dance by a snake which, quite appropriately, is inclined toward sibilance-and a sequence of unadorned magic, when the pilot folds a piece of paper into a megaphone and croons a wistful ballad, '20s style...
...galactic bodies toward earth-Victor Spinetti as a historian, Clive Revill as a businessman who claims he owns all the stars, Graham Crowden as a general without a single soldier in his army Once on earth, the Little Prince meets a shy, friendly fox (Gene Wilder) and the aforementioned snake, played by Bob Fosse, who choreographed his own number He dances it with such undulating grace and molten charm that the show, for the moment, is stolen...
...similarities go. Sister Walburga and Sister Mildred, the Lady Abbess's co-plotters and hatchet nuns, are obviously Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Peripatetic Sister Gertrude, who phones in nightly from Reykjavik or Mombasa and, in a German accent, recommends the study of Machiavelli, is our very own Secretary of Snake. Sister Felicity seems to be an unstable amalgam of George McGovern and John Dean...
...plight is best embodied by the traditional symbol for alchemy--a snake biting its own tail. As he writhes, he emerges as an attractive character. Wincing at his awkwardness and glorying in his rare verbal victories become comfortable...
...spectacle at Snake River Canyon was not "a blue-collar Woodstock." It was more of a redneck Altamont. It's great to know that the good ole heartland is just as frivolous and decadent as the East and West Coasts...