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Right there in the girlie magazine's gamy letters-to-the-editor column, who should turn up but Ronald Reagan? Unlike the other correspondents, who like to share their sexcapades, he was writing Penthouse to compliment Cartoonist Al Capp on a highly flattering article mentioning the Governor of California that had appeared five months before...
...redhaired, freckle-faced 12-year-old humanoid named Johnnie Whitaker, on leave from his true calling, which is shilling for a line of kid's clothes. Jeff East plays Huck like an old-fashioned fraternity boy dressed up for the Sadie Hawkins Day dance in Al Capp's Dogpatch. Warren Gates as Muff Potter and Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly struggle against the killing banality of Taylor's direction; but only Jodie Foster, as Becky, suggests that she somehow remembers what it is like to be a real person in a real world. · Richard Schickel
...right would I put you on?) and the Yiddish words get the biggest laughs of all. (Would somebody please tell me what's a Schwartz?) Even student radicalism comes under attack in a parody of last spring's counter-tech-in that would arm the cockles of A1 Capp's withered, old heart. (There is also a parody of the resultant Crimson editorial, calling the kidnapping of President Nixon an "indefensible act" and demanding "no punishment," that I must admit warmed the cockles of mine.) So you can't accuse the show of not being broadminded...
Other sorts of public notices tend toward the political or satiric. In Li'lAbner, Al Capp occasionally has a laugh with "Lime" magazine...
Born. To Grace Slick, 31, acid-voiced rock singer, and Paul Kantner, 29, guitarist, both of Jefferson Airplane fame: a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: "god" (a small g). No plans for marriage: god will have no surname. Said Grace: "Art Linkletter and Al Capp will be disappointed to learn that she is very healthy, in spite of what they say about drug-crazed hippies...