tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post1675284770384200103..comments2023-06-27T01:34:35.359-07:00Comments on Ted Burke LIKE IT OR NOT: When Reviewers Attack.TED BURKEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-73528187857263255852010-11-14T08:54:10.289-08:002010-11-14T08:54:10.289-08:00You know, this drawing of a sweating, nerve-wracke...You know, this drawing of a sweating, nerve-wracked geek brings up an interesting cinematic point: there has been little or no serious criticism of the later film career of Bob Hope. I am talking about hard-core sour/flat comedies like Call Me Bwana, Eight on the Lam, The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrel, Cancel My Reservation and of course the epochal Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! Several of these involved Phyllis Diller and all of them were the sort of leering, bazooma-filled elbow-in-ribs reactionary yockfests that gave the Older Generation something to watch while the youngsters were digging Lenny Bruce and the Firesign Theater. These films need to be talked about, regardless of how profoundly flatulent and even offensive they were, if for no other reason that they represented the last stand of the once-vital Vaudeville comedic tradition now gone as rancid as a dish of cream left in the basement of an abandoned burlesque house.mantmarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350882479535662318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-43090355316131404452010-11-14T06:37:38.603-08:002010-11-14T06:37:38.603-08:00Yeeks! It is almost too much! The question is -- w...Yeeks! It is almost too much! The question is -- who IS the Frantic Man? I think he is Bill Cullen in a deleted scene from Panic in the Year Zero...mantmarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350882479535662318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531553.post-66518709682335455732010-11-13T17:06:18.660-08:002010-11-13T17:06:18.660-08:00Glad to see that the sketch of The Frantic Man is ...Glad to see that the sketch of The Frantic Man is back. I for one hope we see more of him. Yow!mantmarblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08350882479535662318noreply@blogger.com