Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy (as everyone called him) was in his own low, rambling house, making Cabinet choices to the accompaniment of comic gallops by the baffled world press up and down the narrow streets to interview job hopefuls, then on to the nearest motels in Americus (ten miles away) for sparse rest and food. The food came, famously, from the now legendary Faye's Bar-B-Q Villa-a good steak served in the Formica rooms of a "double-wide mobile home" parked in a mud lot behind a filling station near some rotting tourist cabins...
Looking at a newspaper's entertainment page these days a reader might think the whole country had gone (POW! WOW! WHIZ!) comic crazy. Annie is S.R.O. on Broadway, Superman is the highest grossing movie, and prime-time TV looks like one vast kiddieland. The Incredible Hulk is breaking up the furniture, Wonder Woman is bouncing over buildings, Captain America is flexing his muscles, and Spider-Man is crawling up the wall...
Cynics, of course, might say that TV, where the trend is most visible, has always been one big electronic comic book. But now the comic book heroes are out in the open, and CBS, which has all the big ones, may soon be renamed the Comic Book Supplier...
...addition to all his work for CBS, Lee is now negotiating a deal with NBC for the Silver Surfer, a cosmic comic messiah who floats above earth on his surfboard uttering windy profundities. ABC, meantime, is casting a covetous eye on a (no doubt) shapely Spider-Woman. Lee has optioned a dozen heroes to Universal, and is now thinking about setting up his own production company. "I've always thought of myself as being in show business," he says. "It's just taken the world a long time to realize...
SHAKESPEARE'S comedies are never complete without their clowns, and Measure for Measure has its share, but like all the other comic conventions here they're twisted, decadent. No "mechanicals" or "rustics" here--whores, bawds and drunkards fill the streets and prisons. The BSC actors keep these scenes entertaining and colorful, but they never get their fingernails dirty. They're all having too much fun with the lines to look at them carefully and see their pessimism. Will Lebow as Elbow, the Malaprop-like constable--a perfect pantaloon--steals his few scenes...