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...habit. But you can't make a laff riot out of what is essentially a straight man's role, and Jack bombs. Even the family dog scores higher approval ratings with the test audience. And inevitably, the movie becomes less of a domestic comedy and more of a show-biz...
...could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips. Kids say the darndest things; adults repress them. Only in an extreme case--like that of Neil, a sensitive scholar who has become a derelict, with speech rhythms and nervous tics that suggest the young Tony Perkins--does 28 Up offer a character as full and mysterious as we might find in a novel, or in an old friend. But it is not Apted's failing that he refuses to unearth tabloid headlines...
...archetypal know-it-all neighbor, country style. Ernest P. Worrell oafishly offers his two cents on any subject before screwing up his face and yelling his trademark "Hey Vern!" But that screwed-up face is the most effective ad phiz in the biz, now that Clara Peller has stopped demanding "Where's the beef?" Five years after his first commercial, Ernest has become a national phenomenon, appearing in nearly 3,000 television ads, almost all of them for local sponsors in 100 TV markets. Last week, on behalf of a soft drink and a bed company, he began assaulting viewers...
...million people have called the group's toll-free number (1 800 USA-9000) or otherwise shown interest in this good old American mixture of corporate marketing, show-biz glitz and genuine grass-roots spirit. Although that is still a good distance from the final goal, Ken Kragen, the project's Pied Piper, says some $16 million has been raised or pledged to stage the event, and that interest will soon reach a critical mass...
...What was that?" cried the judge, shocked. He had the witness's words read back by a court reporter. There was no doubt: Country-and-Western Star Kenny Rogers had said he made more than $150 million in the past ten years. No mere show-biz ostentation, his testimony was meant to show the earning power of a pop music talent, specifically that of Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who was killed in 1981, when his auto was hit by a truck. His widow, Sandy Chapin, was suing the trucking company for $25 million in potential earnings; last week the jury...