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...center of all this to-do is Milton Berle, a jack-of-all-turns vaudeville comic who has gone into television... His show is a weekly catchall of the things the 40-year-old comic has learned in 35 hard-working years in show business. Berle uses not only his brash, strongbow-shaped mouth to get off his loud, fast, uneven volley of one-line gags; with expert timing and tireless bounce, he also hurls his whole 6 feet and 191 dieted pounds into every act of his show. His motto is still "anything for a laugh"--and practically anything...
...Franks and his staff to be wearing combat boots and fatigues while sitting around their air-conditioned offices?" asked a Floridian. "Are they expecting to be rushed to the front?" An Arizonan noted, "The camouflage uniforms and combat boots 7,700 miles from the front lines smack of comic opera and macho imagery. Franks and his men appear ready to pick up arms and meet the enemy!" And a Kentucky reader gibed, "It looks almost as if they're 'playing war' in their parents' living room...
...star of his own TV sitcom. these days he's making a comeback as the star of TV ads for MCI. But Alf isn't the only puppet for adults that is garnering attention. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog performs this week at New York City's Irving Plaza--a prelude to a comedy album of "dirty doggie songs." Next up: Crank Yankers, a raunchy puppet show from Comedy Central. The appeal? "Puppets can get away with a lot of nonsense live actors can't," says Triumph creator Robert Smigel. A few to watch...
...film Arthur, in which he played a sweet, wealthy drunk. Spurred to perform by a sense of inferiority stemming in part from a clubfoot, the working-class Moore said, "If I'd been able to hit someone in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic...
...Apartment, The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot. DIED. MILTON BERLE, 93, towering personality of the small screen who traded a life in vaudeville to become TV's first star with his 1948 debut in Texaco Star Theater; in Los Angeles. DIED. DUDLEY MOORE, 66, British comic actor, musician and star of stage and screen best known for the 1960s act Beyond the Fringe, as well as the films 10 and Arthur; in Plainfield, New Jersey. A talented classical and jazz pianist, the diminutive Moore once said, "If I'd been able to hit someone in the nose...