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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). One, Two, Three, Billy Wilder's marvelous spoof about a Coca-Cola exec in West Berlin, featuring a virtuoso performance by James Cagney...
Rose, it becomes obvious, is really a comedian masquerading with a banjo, and his singing is a spoof on the whole lank-locked, guitar-strumming generation. Folk singers who are convinced that poverty equals purity, he points out, are called "ethnic artists," and "ethnic," he explains, "means you make less than $10,000 a year." Rose is 27, and has all the equipment needed to make a great deal more. He usually works at Greenwich Village's Gaslight Cafe, but this week he will open at the Blue Dog in Baltimore...
...average nightclub carouser, having come to see some skin, finds himself involved in a subtle spoof, and there are a few moments when he cannot be absolutely sure that he himself is not being mocked. Significantly, the heaviest and most grateful applause of the evening is given to Rao, an Indian girl whose whole act consists of clever finger shadows of animals and images of Khrushchev, Nehru and De Gaulle...
...SUPERMAN. Shavian wit frosted with acting brilliance makes this spoof of the courting and mating process a tasteful dramatic delight...
Indeed it is. And Director Ford adds stars, subplots and other furbelows that crucially impede the action. Among them is a hilarious cameo performance by James Stewart, who right around intermission time pops up in Dodge City for an irrelevant but clearly intentional spoof of Wyatt Earp. He guzzles, gambles, wisecracks, finally rides his rig out to drive off the Injuns, cheered on by a wagonload of painted ladies...