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...derriere and the chest doubles in size. This kind of physical characterization requires uncanny discipline, and when she marshals all that energy into a number like "Heaven Hop," she and the four accompanying "Angels" blow the roof off. And Devall Patrick's Sir Evelyn Oakleigh is a marvelous British boob, fastidiously fingering his collar while pinpointing certain parliamentary vowel sounds...
Whoops, for a change we were going to put all the listings in chronological order, but we forgot all about the Tubes (featuring Test Tube, Inner Tube, Boob Tube and Tubby the Tube), who will be taking the Tube to the Orpheum this Sunday...
...brand of humor to a large number of comedy consumers in the U.S. Gone is the thrill of belonging to a select cult based on its privileged initiation into the artistic pleasures of a little-known comedy troupe. Thanks to a deluge of Monty Python re-runs on the boob tube, the re-release of their many records at regular prices (as opposed to the exorbitant prices of imported discs), and three uneven movies, the Monty Python material has become an all-too-familiar sound to these ears. To use an old bluesman's phrase, the thrill is really gone...
...much more than sports-writing. The spectators held just as much fascination for him, and it was from covering baseball that Ring, we are told, discovered the archetypal American: "fast-talking, egocentric, semiliterate, innocent, gullible and ill-informed, a character later known as the 'wisecracker' or the 'wise boob.'" Lardner, however, did not imply scorn or look condescendingly on the people he wrote about and in one of his first clips, with which Yardley begins the book, we can see how much Lardner loved the game...
Santana's recent guest appearance on America's favorite Saturday night black humor television show prompted me to give Festival a listen. Carlos Santana and his group have been hitting the boob tube circuit pretty regularly of late, presumably spurred by the well-founded belief that they've come out with their best effort in many months. They understandably want to capitalize on the opportunity of turning over a few bucks while the getting is good, so to speak. Anyway, the six gentlemen who play under the Santana name impressed me considerably. Carlos especially...