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Capp, who grew up Dogpatch poor in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., originated Li'I Abner in 1934. It was the first humorous strip to attempt serious political satire and was an almost instant success, appearing in roughly 900 newspapers by the late 1960s. At his peak, Capp earned more than $500,000 a year from the strip and its numerous spinoffs, including a Broadway musical and two movies...
...title suggests, You Light Up My Life aspires to be heartwarming entertainment. It tells the story of a young L.A. songwriter-performer (Didi Conn) who escapes the clutches of a grasping stage father (Joe Silver), a doltish fiancé (Stephen Nathan) and a lecherous suitor (Michael Zaslow), and goes on to seek fame and fortune in New York. ("I've got to start doing my thing" is the way the heroine defines her goal in life.) Unfortunately, the clutter hides the story. Brooks spends more time shuttling extras in and out of scenes than he does developing his main...
...would be nice to excuse this film's clumsiness as well-intentioned amateurism, but Brooks' intentions are as deplorable as his technique. With the exception of Conn's honestly maudlin performance, every element of You Light Up My Life is cynically conceived; the film's inspirational message and big emotional moments owe more to recent hit movies than they do to any human reality. If Brooks has any genuine passion, it's apparent only when he shamelessly stops his film dead to plug the five ballads he has composed for the sound track. The sentiments...
...prince approaches his lieutenant, the proper response of the lieutenant is 'Fiat voluntas tua' "(Thy will be done). So did G. Gordon Liddy, a former counsel to Richard Nixon's re-election committee, explain his role in Watergate. Liddy was released from federal prison in Danbury, Conn., after 52½ months behind bars. Accompanied by his wife Frances, the grim-faced Liddy strode through the crowd to a waiting Pinto. Once the trunk was loaded with his few possessions, he slammed it shut with a karate chop. Asked how he felt, he responded, this time in German...
DIED. Clarence Daniel Batchelor, 89, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist syndicated by the New York Daily News; in Deep River, Conn. Batchelor won his 1937 Pulitzer for a cartoon depicting war as a prostitute with a death's-head, saying to a European youth, "Come on in. I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...