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...book is even more interesting as an archive of American humor. From the '30s until the '80s, Mankoff says, the punch line was in the third person: we were laughing at - not with - the figure in the cartoon: it was an era of screwball comedies, Jack Benny and cops chasing people through hallway doors. In a James Thurber cartoon, a man stops his date in the lobby of his building to say, "You wait here and I'll bring the etchings down." It's the Joey theory of humor...
...early '80s, Chandler had taken over, and the speaker was in on the joke. "Now everyone does shtick, so you see this wiseguy attitude. They're giving you their philosophy through humor," says Mankoff. In a 2002 cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, who wrote for Seinfeld, a wife exiting a movie theater says to her husband, "I liked it except for you." Says Mankoff: "It's a Seinfeld line. That person realizes she is funny." Jokes today are also less visual and far more newsy than they were 40 years ago, when cartoonists could not expect news events to enter...
DIED. MARVIN DAVIS, 79, former oilman who once owned 20th Century Fox; in Beverly Hills, Calif. After completing college in 1947, Davis with his father launched a wildcat drilling operation that became the source of his wealth. In the '80s he branched into real estate and entertainment, buying Fox studios and then selling the company to media magnate Rupert Murdoch, using the proceeds to build the 20th Century Fox Plaza. Forbes this year pegged his fortune at $4.9 billion...
...there are new pressures given the long hours of working couples," says sociologist Arlie Hochschild, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, found that through the mid-'80s, women still did the lion's share of cleaning. "I think the ideal of shared housework has caught...
...perhaps worthy to note that attacks on Toback as a misogynist are often wrapped up in the copious press on his personal life. A popular gossip magazine in the ’80s called Spy printed a sensationalist chronicle of Toback’s attempted sexual exploits over a short time period. A four-page foldout chart in the magazine detailed whom he hit on and how he worked his magic. His compulsive girl-chasing behavior, his admitted gambling addiction and, above all, his blunt comments about people he dislikes in the industry have made many critics cast...