Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conceits is that anyone who has been asleep for two centuries will probably have to grow up all over again. This gives Allen an opportunity to do a zany turn as a toddler set loose in the operating room where he has been revived. Later, he discovers that all the servants in his cowardly new world are robots (the ones assigned to homosexuals even lisp). To escape from the security police (whose ray gun, incidentally, is always blowing up on them, the spirit of the CIA being immortal), he disguises himself as one of the robots. This bit becomes especially...
...Allen finally links up with the revolutionary underground, but he is no kinder to it than to the Establishment. He accuses its musclebound, Marxist leader of neglecting his duties in order to take handsome lessons. In the end, he manages to win Miss Keaton and overthrow the Government by posing as the doctor engaged to clone a new head of state from the nose of the deceased one, then holding the nose hostage for the revolution...
...Allen's subject may be futuristic, but his method of attacking it links him with the grand tradition of silent comedy. Like such masters of that tradition as Chaplin and Keaton, he deplores the notion that things can be improved through scientific and political "progress." Like them, he obviously believes it his unsolemn duty to subvert such nonsense. Sleeper is his definitive assault on it. And his funniest...
...Fred Allen...
...worship has been virtually S.R.O. for its monthly services ever since. "They attend with enthusiasm on a monthly basis," says Cutler. "I want to keep it that way." Almost all the synagogue's members are connected with show business. Members-besides Matthau, Lewis and Segal-include Marty Allen, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Monty Hall, Jan Murray and Joan Rivers. Others are unemployed actors or struggling writers...