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...Life Is a Bowl of Cherries -What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Bombeck...
...Life Is a Bowl of Cherries -What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Bombeck...
...most depressing spectacles on television is Erma Bombeck's regular weekday stint on ABC's Good Morning America. From her humble beginnings as a syndicated newspaper humor columnist, Bombeck has evolved into a TV personality of the most plastic sort. She delivers her one-liners in a strident vibrato; she luxuriates in canned laughter as though it were the praise of a Nobel Prize jury. Bombeck used to satirize the vulgarity of American suburbia; now she epitomizes...
With The Grass Is Always Greener, an adaptation of her bestselling book, Bombeck invades prime time. This made-for-TV movie is intended as a trial run for a future sitcom. Let's hope that some one at CBS has the good sense to mow Grass down at this early stage...
About the best thing to be said for the film is that Bombeck does not play the autobiographical heroine herself. That odious chore has fallen instead to Carol Burnett, an actress who is often capable of extracting humor from even the most puerile material. This is one of her rare failures. Bombeck's stale jokes about crabgrass and Tupperware parties defy levitation; the cutesie plot is predictable to anyone who has ever encountered any incarnation of Please Don 't Eat the Daisies. Unfortunately, Burnett doesn't get any help from Director Robert Day. His idea of high...