Jane Austen’s 1813 romantic comedy of manners chronicling the romantic vicissitudes of five English sisters. The youngest and silliest of these sisters is named Lydia — which naturally put me in mind of “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”. I say naturally, because once anyone has heard that song —...
Many cartoon drivers banded together to race automobiles around the nation in an attempt to win the grand prize of being named the wackiest racer in the world, with the idea being inspired by the 1965 comedy The Great Race. The majority of the racers had imaginative designs, but two in pa...
there’s a lot of good ones. And they, and they, they played right into that, uh, uh, airplane or airport, airport, whatever, 74. And then the Airplane, the comedy. And I just was reading the
Leave It to Beaver, after all—which starred Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley as Ward and June Cleaver; and Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers as their sons, Wally and Theodore, better known as (The) Beaver—hadn’t been just any comedy; it had represented for millions the optimistic, upwardly...
—villain in Alfred Hitchcock’sNorth by Northwest(1959) and a masterful turn to comedy inA Touch of Larceny(1960)with the lovely Vera Miles. As with many long-careered actors, Mason hit the seemingly inevitable downhill slope. For him, it followed the ’50s, highlighted by a few ...