Larry Gelbart Summary

Critical Essay by Clive Barnes Be warned. A man might die laughing at "Sly Fox." What Larry Gelbart once helped do for Plautus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann Some of Gelbart's dialogue [in Sly Fox] is good trapeze work, some of it is only moderately clever…. [Most] of the time I just watched the pattern... Read more

Critical Essay by Pauline Kael Movie Movie is a dum-dum title for a pair of skillful parodies that were written by Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller under the provisional title Double Feature. The ide... Read more

Critical Essay by Harry F. Waters Attempting to categorize NBC's "United States" is like trying to imagine Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes From a Marriage" rewritte... Read more

Critical Essay by Time [The Wrong Box is a] slice of Victorian gingerbread…. Some of the gags crumble on impact, others are stretched out like taffy, but there is enough fun left over to leave... Read more

Critical Essay by Time The angle in [Not With My Wife, You Don't!], as it happens, is pretty obtuse: the Air Farce, according to the script [by Gelbart, Norman Panama, and Peter Barnes], is a ... Read more