Word: chases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After earning fame and a few bruises with his pratfall impressions of President Ford on NBC's Saturday Night, Comedian Chevy Chase has stumbled onto something really big. It is "a multithous-and-dollar deal that will run into seven figures over a period of time," says Chase, who will leave S.N. after the Oct. 30 show and become a writer, producer and star of NBC specials (with the possibility of making movies as well). Among the subjects he will tackle, adds the comedian, is TV itself-"anything that rings of the cliché and sham, which is what...
...promised to extend the state's borders southward to Panama and install an exact-change lane in the canal. (Reagan's Panama hat is now worn by California Senatorial Candidate S.I. Hayakawa, who insists: "We should keep the canal. We stole it fair and square.") Chevy Chase on NBC's Saturday Night rather sickly reported that George Wallace, "aiming to set the record straight" about his physical qualifications for the presidency, "demonstrated his strength at a luncheon today by crushing a small child with his bare hands...
Ironically, neither Ford nor Carter lacks the makings of an amusing President. The incumbent has "at least two professional gagwriters on his staff -though he sometimes fluffs their lines -and is said to laugh heartily at Chevy Chase's pratfallen Ford impersonations. Ford himself sometimes cracks that his Secret Service contingent receives combat pay when he plays golf. The outcumbent used to tell campaign crowds a story about how, as a boy selling boiled peanuts in Plains, he found there were only two kinds of people in the world, "the good people and those who didn...
...Neil, 28, who also blithely falls off buildings, gets roughed up in fight scenes and tumbles from speeding cars on Quincy, Gemini Man and Baretta, among other television shows. Doubling for a villain on the Bionic Woman, she speeds neck and neck with Lindsay Wagner in a dune-buggy chase before losing spectacularly in a sandy somersault. In Airport 77, a recycled crash caper, she torpedoes through the high waters of a flooding aircraft cabin to rescue a small...
...light. There is no timidity in him, however; he won't tolerate petty injustice. One of his few outbursts of real anger is provoked by the smashing of his shop windows by two leering thugs, hit men for the dead informer. Michel and his friend Antoine (Jacques Denis) chase the vandals down, beat them and knock them into the river...