Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most intriguing new M.T.M. offering is THE TEXAS WHEELERS (ABC, Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). They are yet another extended rural family, but their resemblance to the warm, wonderful Waltons ("the only people who put mayonnaise on their venison," as Johnny Carson once said) goes no further. Dad (Jack Elam) is a shaggy boozer with an itchy foot and no talent at all for drawing uplifting morals from life's little disasters. "Hard work gives a man character-and a slight stoop," he says. Mom is dead, and the head of the family is Truckie (Gary Busey...
...young kids sit on a stage, squirming in the summer heat as some starchy board of education types present them with scholastic awards. One old caricature, decked out in clothes more appropriate to a stroll on a widow's walk, extols an essay written by young Sonny Carson. She tells the audience all about how wonderful it is that this young Negro boy has raised himself up out of the slums, written about a few of his experiences, and set himself on the path of success. The irony begins to bead up like heavy drops of sweat. The camera...
...director, Michael Campus, has a background in slick television reportage. This is his second feature, but Sonny Carson still has the glossy look of most network documentaries. Campus has tried to give the movie an anxious, scruffy look, but even the rough edges seem smoothed out and engineered with the calculation of a film maker on a sort of heartfelt slumming expedition...
...thought that that pushy little guy in the NBC men's room would one day become so popular that according to his pressagent, "Dick Cavett can no longer go to the theater because he's mobbed." My goodness, I've never been mobbed; neither has Johnny Carson or Merv Griffin. I gather the way to get yourself mobbed is to hire a pressagent...
...want to proclaim, profess or promote. Thanks to novel techniques, notably a fast-heat pressure press that can transfer to a T shirt any picture, design or message in full color, major department stores such as Manhattan's Macy's and Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott and hundreds of small T shops across the country let buyers pick from an almost limitless selection of designs and sayings-or fashion their...