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...complain? Under my new name ALF -- for Alien Life Form -- I'm now a bigger star than Alpha Centauri. My half hour on Monday nights on the NBC-TV network sometimes hits the Top Ten in the Nielsen ratings (just like ours, except recorded electronically instead of with marshmallows and thumbtacks) and is playing in about 50 countries. The show is the story of my life in a typical suburban household -- working dad, nonworking mom, teenage daughter just out of braces, chirpy son who dresses up as a vegetable for the school play, and yours truly, the alien...
...product of Hesitation ( School named Max Wright. He must have mastered the Dramatic Pause (wake me up at half time!) during his years on the stage at places like Yale and Harvard, schools as prestigious as Podunk and Dingaling on Melmac. Listen to him drivel: "There are moments when ALF's reality is so overwhelming, you have to catch your breath. He picked up a lingerie catalog one day, and you could see his blood changing, his temperature going up. How did he do that? ALF has eyes of stone, literally cold black eyes, and sometimes, whether they catch...
Some see me as cuddly like a dog; others with more sense recognize I am bringing insult comedy back to TV for a world that loves nicknames and ^ invective. Fusco goes Freudian and burbles like this: "I think we all need magic and fantasy in our lives. ALF brings out the little girl or boy in people. He touches something inside you that you can go back to and remember." Sure -- blind fear of the dark! Haaah! I still kill...
...puppet? For real? Whatever, NBC' s alien ALF is a lovable loudmouth who stars in the ratings and cleans up at toy counters...
...sudden public spotlight has complicated the work of Alf Erlandsson, the Swedish national who has headed the archives for nearly 20 years. His staff of 24 previously considered four visitors a month a busy season. Now Erlandsson expects at least that many callers a day. "This used to be such a quiet place," he says. "I have a feeling things will never return to normal...