Word: berte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Superior even to the best of the group musical numbers are the near-slapstick comedy routines, especially those revolving around Steve Hill. Jon Linden and Richard Topol. Hill, equipped with one of the biggest, ugliest afros you're likely to encounter in the Square this summer, plays Bert Parks in a needle-sharp spoof of the Miss America pageant. The parody climaxes with the funky "Black Boys/White Boys," which addresses the sublime pleasures of interracial intercourse. Unfortunately, most of the narrative bits do not mesh as well with the musical portion of the show. Yazbeck and Clarks have...
...joined the Reagan Cabinet. "This is heavy political baggage," admitted one aide, who conceded that the President's reluctance to distance himself from Donovan threatened to make it "a shoestring Lance case." That was a reference to Jimmy Carter's refusal to abandon his Georgia buddy Bert Lance, whom he had appointed Budget Director, until disclosures about Lance's wheeler-dealer banking practices forced Lance to resign his Cabinet post...
...civic-spirited showcase. The fair and adjacent real estate developments were financed by an intricate combination of private money and, to a much larger extent, public funds. Nearly all the deals have a common connection: Jake Butcher, 46, a Knoxville banking magnate and twice a candidate for Governor. Banker Bert Lance, Butcher's friend and Jimmy Carter's ill-starred budget chief, made the entrées necessary to arrange for $43.5 million in federal subsidies and talked Egypt into participating. Another Butcher friend, Jesse Barr, who was convicted in 1976 of bank fraud, was later hired...
...message, if any, emerging from the twin cases is apparent only through examining the shades of difference between the upper-class crimes. Barry Locke, the high-level bureaucrat who stole tax dollars typifies the evil outcast. Unlike in other recent corruption scandals--like those of Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, and Hugh Casey, Ronald Reagan's CIA director--no one stood up for Locke. The day he was charged King suspended him without pay. The day he was convicted, King called the whole affair "unfortunate." The public now scorns, cars, parodying the "Make it in Massachusetts" bumper stickers...
...many lovers and husbands were all played by Sid Caesar in a performance of virtuosic hilarity. Here they are divided between James Coco and Victor Garber. Garber is the rich little rich boy who first stirs Belle's precocious nubility. Coco, a clown in the grand lineage of Bert Lahr, is wonderfully funny throughout, especially as a Teutonic film director with a disconcerting resemblance to Benito Mussolini...