Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yorker cartoon, a horrified patient looks up from the operating table and asks the masked doctor, "How do I know you're not George Plimpton?" How, indeed? The author of Paper Lion and Out of My League has played as a bumbling quarterback for the Detroit Lions and performed as an inexpert pitcher in Yankee Stadium...
...models as its new LTD, while Lincoln Mercury's biggest gainer was the Cougar, available for the first time in a convertible. Chrysler reported across-the-board gains, paced by Plymouth's ultra-sporty "Road Runner," so-called because of a "beep beep" horn that recalls the cartoon character of that name...
...this year. But that alone would hardly be enough to draw such a motley assortment of celebrities to the show for $210 per appearance. What appeals is the program's extraordinary ambiance: it has an artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy, tumbling pell-mell from the opening straight through the commercials till the NBC peacock turns tail. Often the first...
While some viewers complain that Laugh-In goes too far, it is perhaps because TV went nowhere for so long. Until a few years ago, it was standard practice on cartoon shows to depict cows without udders. Heavy breathing was edited out of TV movies, "suggestive positions" out of wrestling films. Kisses were limited to a few seconds, and terms relating to childbirth were forbidden. Not even a pause was pregnant. Even today, TV censors are still fairly nervous. Not long ago, says Comic Godfrey Cambridge, a National Educational Television censor refused to permit Cambridge to say "homosexual." When...
...Arte Johnson, 39, from Chicago, is described by Martin as "the man with a thousand faces, which makes bed check difficult after some of the cast parties." Johnson, who used to do TV commercials and cartoon voices, makes as many as ten complete costume changes each show. He appears as a double-talking Russian, a freaked-out Swede, the German soldier ("Verrry interesting"), a dirty old man and a guru ("Man who speaketh with forked tongue should never kiss a balloon...