Over the years many comic teams have made movies to box office success i.e. Abbott & Costello - Hope & Crosby - Laurel & Hardy. etc. But one team who crashed was Allen & Rossi who made their one and only film in 1966. The NY Times critic skewered them .."it was lacking in both wit & vitality."......and dismissed the film as a "vehicle made of plywood and cheesecloth". I'm sure it "frizzled" Marty Allen's frizzly hair. They did better on the Las Vegas circuit. His obit said he worked until age 94. His parting shot was "I work out every day. Just yesterday I was on the treadmill for an hour. Then some idiot turned it on." "Hello, dere!"
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