Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began driving trucks when he was 18 years old, picking up milk for a wholesale company. When he was 20, he bought his own tractor-trailer rig. Over the next few years, he hauled various commodities, including produce, furniture and comic books, to various parts of the country. He joined and left the International Brotherhood of Teamsters twice during that time...
...expected to be more than just a good newsman, of course. Says Co-Host Walters: "The person must be able to do interviews and ad-lib those awful 30 seconds at the end of the show." He must also supply what Schulberg calls "chemical balance" to the stand-up comic pace of Today Reviewer Gene Shalit and the alternately sweet-and-strident Walters. And he must bring himself to do commercials...
...second-by-second computer program for verbal inflections, facial contortions, physical maneuvers, and furniture kicking. During the extensive arguments and love bouts of Elyot and Amanda, the play's spirited and engaging cynics, the precise sense of timing turns insults, cigarette lighting, and record smashing into high comic art. At times, Arnott's exhaustive direction and his actors' slavish execution reaches self-parody: it is worthwhile, during the course of the play, to study carefully the director's Bolshoi ballet of sitting, resettling, and rising from different geometric surfaces...
Sherlock Junior, a 1924 Buster Keaton comedy, is being shown tonight as part of the Museum of Fine Art's summer-long tribute to the great stone face. Of all the comic stars of the silent screen, Keaton was the funniest, the most sensitive, the most intelligent. He is, above all, too good to lose, and the MFA deserves praise for resurrecting his genius. Tonight's film is about "a humble movie projectionist who is transformed into a master detective thanks to the magic of the silver screen." It's showing with Keaton's The Paleface. With great movies like...
...after he was expected. No sooner in Monaco than he was miffed again. The Rainiers were entertaining the players in a pro celebrity tennis tournament and had failed to include him. Next day, several hours before he was due to sing, Sammy boarded the Silver Gate and sailed away. Comic Bill Cosby retrieved the evening with the help of Burt Bacharach, Desi Arnaz Jr. and Josephine Baker. Grace remained serene. "When people get that pampered," she sighed, "there's not much...