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...Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side, where a fat kid named Freddie Prinze lived for most of his 20 short years. Nowadays Freddie works another barrio. As the wisecracking Chicano hustler in the decrepit East Los Angeles garage in NBC's smash new series Chico and the Man, Prinze is the hottest new property on prime-time...
Though the new season has only just begun, Chico is already up there at the top of the Nielsen ratings with CBS's Rhoda, whose star, Mary Tyler Moore's old sidekick Valerie Harper, has a following of her own, and Archie Bunker's crew in All in the Family. That is not bad company for a lad who is barely out of his teens, and got his first professional job little more than a year ago as a stand-up comic playing to an off-season crowd in a Puerto Rican resort hotel. Actually, Freddie Prinze...
...Chico, Prinze gets to try out his wisecracks on the crusty old bigot (Jack Albertson) who owns the garage he works in. Chico's humor, like Freddie's, is mordant but never really malicious. Says Prinze: "Chico's made something of a life that could have left him very bitter. He could have been anything from a pusher to a pocketbook snatcher...
...English and plays olde folke stuff, with lots of mandolins and other esoterica, and is generally soft and pleasant, sometimes extraordinarily lovely. Elvin Bishop was the lead guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for years and years and is now on his own. He looks a little like Chico Marx and when he was with Butterfield he held his own playing blues in the same band as Michael Bloomfield, so he's no slouch...
...Coconuts (1929). The Marx Brothers' first, and worst, movie. A couple of good routines, though, especially the famous Groucho-Chico "Why a Duck?" scene. Ch. 4, 1:30 a.m. B/W, 1 1/2 hours...