The Gazebo (Avon; M-G-M), Hollywood's reconstruction of the Broadway comedy hit, is a fairly successful piece of graveyard humor. The corpse is provided by a wildly improbable murderer (Glenn Ford), a young Milquetoast who writes and directs TV whodunits, and who takes a potshot one night at a particularly unpleasant blackmailer. When the whodunist sees his first real-life cadaver, he almost faints. When he wraps the body in a plastic tarpaulin, the plastic tears. When he wraps it in a shower curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a...
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