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Television's Johnny Carson has one. So does Actor Richard Burton. Pop Singers Barry Manilow and Engelbert Humperdinck have two apiece. The Queen Mother got one as an 80th-birthday gift. Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, received a pair when they were married. What do these luminaries have in common? Along with thousands of lesser mortals, each has had his or her name appended to at least one star-of the heavenly kind-in what seems to be the most far-out fad since astrology...
...ramifications of this trend toward agreement, Trow says, reveal Americans to be a pathetic bunch. Perhaps worst of all is the cult of the celebrity which evolved. Those people, the beautiful, delightful folks on Carson and in People, they are special, but they have all sorts of problems just like us. Since we are so like the celebrities, well, we must be a little special too. And, of course, now our problems bind us all together, too. No one knows what to do about the problems, but if the people on the talk shows and in the "teledramas" have them...
...agreement. That assumption is substantial and sadly pessimistic. But it is hard to believe that human nature changed when the slogan "I Like Ike" appeared. More likely, technology's ability to pump a steady stream of "comfort" into every home rocketed. If that is the case, maybe Johnny Carson and People provide an opiate for the masses which masses don't wholly despise...
...defensive, Director Grade-nephew of the impresario Lord Grade-told Carson and his staff that he was "delighted" with the first shows. Grade also said that "Carson seemed a bit hurt that the U.S. papers picked up the worst quotes in the papers here" and, for a more moderate view, directed the curious to a Sunday Times column by TV Critic Russell Davies. That was largely an act of existential futility, like trying to hide from a blizzard inside a freezer. Davies wrote that the premiere Tonight show "had catastrophically equated our national tastes with those of Benny Hill," then...
...Carson says that it is difficult to play to two audiences. "I never expected to be a tremendous hit in England," he says, "but I hope the people will give it a chance to settle in." But three regional television companies have given the ego a beating by dropping the show. Said a spokesman for Central Scotland television: "Our audience didn't like it, and more important, didn't understand it. Seventy percent of the jokes mean Sweet Fanny Adams to us up here...