Word: comic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rule is instant obscurity. A case in point is Marty Scorsese, 25, an N.Y.U. film-school graduate whose It's Not Just You, Murray won a first prize at the 1965 student festival-and might just well be the best university movie ever made. A 14-minute comic synopsis of low-class urban life that is vaguely reminiscent of Fellini's work, Murray is the picaresque tale of a vulpine conman who rises from petty-ante rumrunner to gunsel...
...beam glance. The skies are guarded by Roger Ramjet, the seas by Marine Boy, the barnyard by Super Chicken. What they can't handle, Granite Man, Frogman, Coil Man, Spider Man, Liquid Man, Aquaman, Multi Man and Birdman can. Yet of all the offspring of TV's comic book culture, the most lethargic is Video Boy. He doesn't do anything. He just sits there, sucks his thumb and stares at the tube...
...left to right. No, normal viewing does not impair eyesight. Yes, TV has replaced reading and storytelling sessions with the parent. No, TV has no significant effect on school work; viewing has not encroached on school-related activities, but merely supplanted the time that used to be devoted to comic books and radio...
Died. Bert Wheeler, 72, vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood comedian; of emphysema; in Manhattan. Gifted with a rubberized grin, a quavering voice, and a talent for leaking torrents of tears on cue, Wheeler was a comic fixture ever since 1911 when he played in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway. He went on to the Ziegfeld Follies, then to Hollywood, where he teamed with the late Robert Woolsey in some 30 comedies...
...Brooks was constantly asked what he intended to do next. He developed a stock answer: he was writing and directing a movie called Springtime for Hitler, a backhanded reference to Edward Everett Horton's summer-playhouse hardy perennial, Springtime for Henry. What started as a joke has become comic reality, although the title has been tactfully changed to The Producers. For at least half of its running time it is pure pell-Mel lunacy-which is to say, uproariously funny...