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Cheech and Chong don't look like bums anymore. In fact, Cheech Martin and Tommy Chong have escaped the barrio forever and are flying high on two magical drugs: popularity and commercial success. As a stand-up comedy team, they had thousands of followers for their routines about ghetto life and the constant lust for all types of marijuana. In laconic style, the two based their humor on strange, burned-out characters whose off-the- wall repartee generated easy laughs. These characters often spoke in grunts, and halfsentences, peppering their dialogue with "yeah, man's" and "yeah, so you know...
...years ago, the pair embarked on a film project: Up in Smoke, a picaresque comedy of two low riders in search of the biggest marijuana joint in the world. Surprisingly, it grossed $104 million world-wide; not surprisingly, Universal eagerly produced their next film, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, which opens today (see review). In Boston to publicize the new film, the duo submitted to an early morning press conference...
They arrived dressed in the casual splendor they can now afford: Cheech in a T-shirt, bright green pants and flip-flops; Chong all in white, with high-top wrestling sneakers, a green translucent belt and tinted glasses. "Hey," says Cheech, gesturing at his clothes, the microphones, and the cameras and smiling knowingly, "We're not as dumb as we look...
...North Korea: Indications are that the supreme power there is being shifted from President Kim Il Sung to his son Kim Chong Il. This might be made public at their Workers Party General Congress in October. On the military side, they have completed preparations to move on the South. Since February there have been large-scale military maneuvers by their army, navy and air force and preparations for mobilizing the whole nation. This continues. At the same time, North Korea regards recent developments in South Korea as a "decisive moment for [touching off] revolution." They are mounting a deceitful "peace...
...life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest of the time. By refusing to pander to the crowd, Brooks puts a healthy distance between himself and such recent comics turned film makers as Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, and Cheech and Chong...