Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Poking the Foibles. One of his most satiric series was his dozen oils of Hu-dibras, the central figure in Samuel Butler's scathing poem on puritanical hypocrisy. Hudibras was ignorant, conceited, preachy, distempered, vain-a cocksure jackass. Butler used him to poke fun at reformers, and so did Hogarth...
FAMILY AFFAIR (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). In this episode, Bill Davis' priceless butler, French, is unexpectedly called away and his brother Nigel (John Williams) offers to fill in as chief cook, bottlewasher and lion tamer in the motherless household of a boy and two girls-all of which leads to complications, especially when a group fishing trip is in the offing...
This special presentation of the Hector Berlioz oratorio-trilogy features Giorgio Tozzi, Charles Anthony, Helen Vanni and the John Butler Dancers with Carmen de Lavallade...
...good-hearted fat girl badgered by a bunch of slick, corrupt elders: a bitchy nymphomanic roommate who deserts her own child and runs off with an anonymous sugar daddy; a ne'er-do-well lover who quits his job, ignores his baby, and calls Georgy "fat face;" and a butler father who pressures her to marry his leering middle-aged employer. Plain, put-upon, hugging her baby-care books to her ample front, Georgy is supposed to be a sympathetic figure; but what the director and the weeping girls behind me seemed to ignore is that she's as pitiful...
GEORGY GIRL. The rags-to-riches story of a butler's dumpy daughter is like a thousand eccentric English comedies, but it boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played with vibrant good humor by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa...