Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, The Street Fighter has little else to offer in the way of novelty, save perhaps for Sonny Chiba, a stepchild of Jack Palance and Magog. The movie is Japanese in origin, not Chinese, as is customary, and contains some comic relief in the person of Chiba's chuckleheaded pal, called Ratnose. Connoisseurs of the etiquette of male affection in films will notice the hero's farewell to the dying Ratnose-giving his nostrils a hearty but melancholy pull-with some guarded delight...
...Jokes. Unemployment has become a compelling theme of soap operas, comic strips, rock songs. In ABC's One Life to Live and CBS's The Young and the Restless, characters talk as much about their job insecurities as their sexual insecurities. In the newspapers' Mary Worth, two characters are putting off marriage because they are out of work. (Comic-strip art imitates life; marriage rates are tumbling because of unemployment.) In a new song, Hard Times, Arlo Guthrie croons: "I ain't got a nickel to call mine ... We ain't even got a lousy...
...just may have been an ordinary week for a comic who has built his career around the plaint, "I don't get no respect." Shortly after Rodney Dangerfield taped 31 days of material for New York Telephone's Dial-A-Joke, 170,000 Manhattan phones went dead because of a fire in the company switching station. No matter, really, because the New York Daily News, which was to run advertisements and a phone number for the feature, was shut down by a strike. Dangerfield remained calmly pessimistic through it all. Said the cut-off comic to his nightclub...
...some more stretching to do before she and her show can reach its full potential. Her comic range is still nothing for Lily Tomlin to worry about. The monologues are often monosyllabic, the sketches as thin as her own profile. If there is exuberance in her singing-dancing numbers with such potent guest stars as Raquel Welch and Bette Midler, there is also a feeling that she will not entirely prove herself until she dares front a show that lacks such heavy supporting artillery. She also seems to need the security of incredibly lavish productions. Each program costs...
...professor Abram Chayes may take some ribbing in this morning's classes for the hilarious charade cameo he performs as a law school professor trying to evoke some response out of his less than diligent students. But he should take it lightly. He is far and away the greatest comic in the show. John Enteman as a George C. Scottish Judge Hiram Chokum and Bill Wilkins as Professor A.J. Cashner trail Chayes but execute their songs clearly and only occasionally send their jokes ahead via Western-Union...