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Over-Refined. This satire of contrasting intellectual and ethnic types is a model (if not a parody) of what is often described as New Yorker fiction: the nostalgic revelation of an overrefined sensibility that emerges preferably in an unusual setting. More important, Mosby is a cameo that illustrates the dangers of the reductive, aggressively critical intellect...
Confined to a few brief scenes, the bearded Mitchum is little more than a cameo of a goat. The bloated, bejeweled Taylor seems less a depleted call girl than a prosperous madam. But alternately snooty or snarling, she does underline the message of her role: there is nothing more pretentious than swank posing as class. Unfortunately, that is the message of the film as well...
Richard Nixon? Making jokes on a TV comedy show with a bunch of weirdos? You bet, as they say, your sweet bippy. Everybody and his myna bird wants to make a cameo appearance on Rowan and Martin's manic Monday night affair. It is the smartest, freshest show on television. President Johnson, Igor Stravinsky and Jean-Paul Sartre have not yet appeared at the stage door, but if they do, they'll just have to get in line behind Marcel Marceau, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, Dick Gregory and Jack Benny. And they will do anything once they...
...writers and key production personnel. The group may decide to do a satire on the machine age (aired last week) or the fourth estate (the concept this week). The writers are then led back to their cages. Later, the various elements-a silly dance, a special skit, cameo spots-are entered into the growing script. By this time, those elements are so confusing that Head Writer Keyes keeps track of them on 3-by-4-ft. cards, divided into several columns. As the writing team assigned to the specific show begins to deliver its drafts, the bits and pieces...
...cameo tapings are made with an eye for economy as well as variety. The average Laugh-In show costs $170,000 to produce. To save money, each cameo guest is given perhaps dozens of one-liners to recite. Those gags that are not used on one show are preserved on tape, along with an assortment of skits and acts, for use in future shows; they are numbered and filed in a "joke bank" under such headings as "Joke Wall" or "Cocktail Party...