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...longtime ratings champ Good Morning America at ABC, while the CBS Morning News continues to flounder with the abrupt departures of Anchors Bill Kurtis and, last week, Phyllis George. The Saturday-morning kidvid schedule remains No. 1. Carson is still king of late-night, and Letterman the hippest of clown princes. Only daytime is a slum for profits when it could be a gold mine; ABC's supremacy with its afternoon soaps helps it lead NBC in total network profits, despite the tailspin ABC has taken in the evening. Recently, NBC's afternoon schedule has begun to mimic...
...surveyed placed ads of any kind; in 1979 the figure was 7%. Ads range in tone from the discreet, almost public-service messages on a Philadelphia classical-music station by Rawle & Henderson, the nation's oldest firm, to the outrageous grabbers of Ken Hur of Madison, Wis., the acknowledged "clown prince of adtorneys." The 300-lb. Hur's most famous TV commercial features him in | bejeweled scuba gear climbing out of a lake and urging those who are "in over their heads" to seek bankruptcy counseling at his Legal Clinic. His next TV offering will show a condemned prisoner...
...first appeared on Broadway in 1968, and its lead roles have been a recurrent draw to major actors ever since. For Jim Dale, a manic clown who won a Tony for walking a tightrope in Barnum, and Stockard Channing, a lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully...
...needs a humor consultant, I think you'll agree that it can use one less attorney" and got a laugh. He went on to point out that humor was important in sales because "people pay more attention to humor. Maybe you don't think so, but remember the class clown? We always listened...
Marceauu's notoriety arises not only from his "Style" exercises, in which he depicts a variety of professions and predicaments, but also form hie "Bip" pantomimes. The "Bip" character, whom Marceau created at the beginning of his career, is a clown whose hallmarks are his battered, beflowered opera hat and his penchant for misadventures. In Marceau's stint at the Colonial, he spends the first half of the program engaging in several style pantomimes, and the second half portraying Bip and his further...