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...colleges around the U.S. Students spend $250 to learn from a man who has written for such TV series as Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life and for Comedian Joan Rivers' appearances on the Tonight Show, and who staged The Kraft Music Hall and The Carol Burnett Show...
...that she's had a taste of the writer's life, Carol Burnett is planning a second book, this time with her daughter Carrie Hamilton as co-author. Burnett's first volume began three years ago as a missive to her three children, but after 100 pages "it began to look more like a book than a letter." Now a best seller, One More Time chronicles her sometimes difficult Los Angeles upbringing and concludes with Burnett landing her first big-time job. "It's not a show-business book," cautions the author. "It's an inventory -- my take on growing...
...satire is too meek, there ^ are too many dead spots and blank expressions, and the dialogue often sounds like comedy writers' Muzak. (Grodin: "I'll see us all go to our graves before we lose this ranch!" Garr: "You go to your grave; I'm going to bed.") Burnett seems especially subdued, looking in vain for the precise parodic target that would launch her into an over-the-top lampoon of the kind she mastered on her old variety series...
Indeed, a few Carol Burnett Show writers, or just one of the Zucker brothers (whose movie Airplane! was a funnier and more freewheeling spoof), might have turned Fresno into the definitive takeoff it aspires to be. Fresno seems oddly overqualified: a parody that is better plotted, acted and directed (by Jeff Bleckner) than most of the shows it satirizes. Six hours without one ludicrous cliff-hanger or evil twin? This is a mini-series that could have used a bit less taste and a little more Fresno...
...MORE TIME, Burnett...