Word: cliches
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...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 most of television is." Abandoning his old show will be something of a wrench, says Chevy, but "it's like leaving one love affair for another, and we all must move along...
Parker recreates old movie clichés with shameless abandon: a car chase is routed through a barn, from which the autos emerge covered with straw and squawking hens. Fat Sam's speakeasy has a janitor (played by a winning, wistful Albin Jenkins) who mops floors and dreams of being a tap dancer. Parker reproduces, in the character of Blousey. the goody-goody bitchiness that made the "nice girls" of gangster flicks such eminent candidates for strangulation. The hoofing is exuberant and surprisingly adept, even if Paul Williams' musical score is a little slick. The whole movie...
...game, ABC will air not the usual image-burnishing salute to the sport but a realistic study of football as a way of making a living (8 p.m. E.D.T.). It's Tough to Make It in This League neither glosses over the problems players face nor flogs the cliché of football as a paradigm of society's ills...
...action begins with shots of seven-year-olds running blocking drills. The work of football begins early. So do the clichés. Says a coach, watching his 4-ft. prospects bang heads: "The boy who is really sincere about the game of football-he loves contact...
Sabatini's talents as a stylist lie well to the south of, say, Sir Walter Scott's. He is a Monte Pythonesque coiner of clichés: rubies have a fearless tendency to "glow like live coals," and Frenchmen sputter expletives like "Name of a name!" and "By example!" Yet in the next sentence Sabatini can turn a flashing phrase (a eunuch's hands are two "bunches of fat fingers...