Word: cats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Listings mention of " 'Copy Cat,' a hilarious, gentle play about an almost human copying machine which befriends a lonely ghetto...
...publicized that its new situation comedy, The Brady Bunch, will deal with "the most difficult integration of them all, that of the sexes." In the premiere of the series, which is perhaps the most cynically commercial offering of the season, a widow (Florence Henderson) with three daughters and a cat, wed a widower (Robert Reed) with three sons and a dog. The rival pets and siblings reduced the wedding to a sickening chaos that was about a thousand decibels less hysterically amusing than the show's laugh track suggested...
...Cat" Catlan's game is off. He was once the Number One quarterback in the league, but he's getting old. His younger teammates on the New Orleans Saints ride him, and his wife, a fashion designer (Jessica Walter), goes into a deep freeze whenever he comes near. As he hobbles off the field, fans bellow such pleasantries as "Yaah, why don'cha apply for Medicare?" He is even driven into an affair with another woman (Diana Muldaur), which is consummated in front of a fireplace and photographed with a lot of lingering dissolves as superimposed flames...
...vain attempt to make a movie out of all this, Director Tom Gries inserts dozens of pauses between the clichés, some seemingly as long as a half time ceremony. Charlton Heston brings his usual Pleistocene presence to the part of Cat, presumably granted him because his rain-barrel chest wouldn't look scrawny in the locker-room scenes, but everyone else stands around looking sort of embarrassed. The last tackle comes as a welcome relief, as Heston and the film fall one final time to the gridiron with a resounding thud...
...earth is irretrieyably disturbed. Little mini-eco-catastrophes have been happening ever since man arrived on the scene. In the South, Pacific collectors, naturalists, and trumpeters on hundreds of islands have been picking up tritons off the coral reefs and beaches to get their conch shells. The tritons cat the starfish which prey on the coral animals that build up the reefs. Because there are now so many people on the earth, they are now picking up enough tritons so that the coral reefs are crumbling. And after a while most of those islands and parts of Australia are going...