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...mentally retarded, is molested by a series of dirty old men in odd clothing. They include a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr), a poet (Richard Burton), a guru (Marlon Brando), a Minuteman general (Walter Matthau), a surgeon (James Coburn), and Candy's uncle and father-both played by John Astin. The attacks take place on a pool table and in a moving truck, a paratroop plane, a grand piano, a men's room, a police car, an Oriental temple, a Mercedes-Benz and a hospital room. In all cases, sex is represented by a lot of thrashing around under...
SHERIFF WHO?? (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A satiric comedy with a constantly changing cast of sheriffs, as one after another is shot or run out of a Texas town aptly named Blood. Dick Shawn, John Astin and Jerry Belson take their lumps in the pilot, "sneak preview...
...thoroughbred spiders that are raised by the children, the props are obviously first-rate, but the people are even better. Beautiful Carolyn Jones plays the mother, Morticia, with a chilling verve that should make any dead-blooded man want to share a bier with her. Her husband Gomez (John Astin) and Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) are quite sufficiently insane, but one could research the annals of television and not discover the likes of her butler Lurch, who is played by Ted Cassidy, 6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs., with a massive, embalmed face and a deft touch on the parlor...
...Sitchcoms. The best new situation comedy is ABC's I'm Dickens-He's Fenster, a tale of two buddies (played by John Astin and Marty Ingels) who are construction carpenters with sawed-off brains. Both are bucking for foreman, but in the main they are slapsticking away with casual finesse. Dickens cocks his wrist to look at his watch and pours coffee into his lap. The laughter isn't canned. Mrs. Dickens is a knockout. No one misses Charles...
...battery additive that sparked one of the Eisenhower Administration's first family feuds-when Bureau of Standards Director Dr. Allen V. Astin was fired, then reinstated-is under fire again, this time from the Federal Trade Commission. FTC labeled the advertising for AD-X2 "false, deceptive and misleading," for stating that the compound can restore dead batteries...