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...Caesar had Cleopatra. Tristan loved Isolde. Romeo died for Juliet. Arthur Fonzarelli (a.k.a. "the Fonz") went ape over Pinky Tuscadero. Flame-haired Pinky (played by Roz Kelly, thirtyish), came roaring into Fonzie's life on her guess-what-color motorcycle for the new season's first two shows of ABC'S hit series Happy Days. Instantly smitten by the shapely Pinky, the self-proclaimed "world's greatest female biker," the Fonz actually bussed her in the bike shop and carried her pink scarf close to his leather-jacketed heart. For a few tense moments marriage loomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pink Passion | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Repertory Gamut. For the past 16 years, however, he has managed to confine his energies to the Dallas Theater Center, where he has served as stagehand, ticket taker, director and actor, running the repertory gamut from Julius Caesar-he played Brutus-to A Streetcar Named Desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - THEATER: TexasTripIe Play | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

Some evangelicals are breaking with their tradition of not becoming involved in politics. Argues Harold Lindsell, editor of Christianity Today: "We are members of two kingdoms, God's and Caesar's, and we must participate in both." Evangelical periodicals are publishing articles on politics, and at least one has run a full-page ad paid for by a group called Evangelicals for Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Battling for the Blocs | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Daffy Asides. Silent Movie is welcome not the least for its audacity. Nobody makes silent movies any more, but the last person who might be expected to try is Brooks, who began his career cooking up outrageous interludes for Sid Caesar, consorted with Carl Reiner in the creation of the splendidly garrulous 2,000 Year Old Man (2,013 on his last birthday), and made a group of antic movies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) that needed dialogue for life's blood. Brooks' favorite weapon was the non sequitur (mankind's greatest invention, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mum's the Word | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...with the efforts of a down-at-the-heels Hollywood director named Mel Funn (portrayed, inevitably, by Brooks himself) and his desperate scheme to save not just his own career but a major studio. Funn wants to make a silent movie, a comedy, of course. The studio chief (Sid Caesar) thinks Mel is nuts, but Mel, a pro, counters with the one blandishment proved irresistible to moguls on the ropes - movie stars. What if Funn and his two buddies (Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise) are able to round up some of Hollywood's brightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mum's the Word | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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