Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold the stage. As Catherine, Pippins's final love. Susan Power conveys warms and sincerity, and on the opposite end of the scale. Ann Henry's Fastrada captures well the brashly devious and comic nature of her role Mark Morland (as Lewis) and Celia Jaffe (as Berthe, Pippin's aunt) are also very funny, and all the Players perform effectively...
...these dazzling catalogues afford an index? Because, dear consumer, you will be forced to read them page by page, item by item, lest you miss the quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine...
Carson's precision-tooled comedic skills owe much, as Cavett points out, to certain illustrious forebears: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope-"and Oliver Hardy-that burn, that long look into the lens." Surely Jonathan Winters was the inspiration for such Carson characters as the garrulous Aunt Blabby, the right-wing dimwit Floyd R. Turbo, even the huckstering greaseball Art Fern. Carnac the Magnificent is Steve Allen's Answer Man in swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings...
...FICTION: Aunt Julia...
...members of Stanley's family who talk to you about why you got wrong answers on practice tests. They have vaguely Jewish, vaguely Long Island accents and they laugh a lot at their own jokes. "Quite a way to go, no? --Getting mulched by the lawn tractor!" chortles Aunt Miriam. "Ho! Ho! Ho!" You turn the tapes off and figure out for yourself why the other correct answer was the better correct answer. It's comforting to know that the money you have paid for the tapes you don't use is going toward a snazzy new kitchen...