Larry Gelbart

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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 gland-based gang of joy-stick jockeys who do almost nothing but make low-level attacks on garters of opportunity. As a result, the triangle in this picture is anything but acute. But it's cute, real cute. (p. 107)

[The film is an] airy nothing whooshing along so briskly that audiences may fail to notice how much of the ho ho is really just ho hum. (p. 108)

"Squaring the Triangle," in Time (reprinted by permission from Time, The Weekly Newsmagazine; copyright Time Inc. 1966), Vol. 88, No. 20, November 11, 1966, pp. 107-08.

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