Word: costello
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...originality, insist its partisans. Here too there may be less than meets the eye. No one would expect any show to arrive without a heritage, and those involved with Seinfeld have always acknowledged its debt to earlier series. Seinfeld has said that the show emulates Abbott and Costello, for example. And Michael Richards' portrayal of Kramer is a frank homage to The Honeymooners' Art Carney. But Seinfeld's fans have always been rather smug when they declare that the show is "about nothing" and that its prime directive is "No hugging. No learning." The idea seems to be that...
...needs is a woman president," said Bettina H. Harrison, who earned a degree from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) in 1940, in a lighter moment during the club's discussion of its alma mater's future. "I nominate myself." "And I'll vote for you," laughed Marie M. Costello...
...Before we actually tried it, space travel was a whole lot easier. See Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953). So simple a janitor (Bud) and a half-wit (Lou) could stumble onto a big silver sausage of a rocketship, flip a few switches, and go all the way to . . . Mardi Gras. Then Venus, with all the usual misadventures and comic contortions along the way. The code term for this is "classic comedy." It's a warning, because it's dated. Soft spots, stiff acting by supporting players, and yet A & C fans (you know who you are) are watching...
...Abbot and Costello were a hilarious moment in time. And if you can't rewind yourself a bit to watch them, at least give them credit for inventing "Seinfeld." But CP, properly incensed when his copy of "Go to Mars" wasn't rewound, warns you now: Be kind, or it's Bang, Zoom -- To the moon! Happy viewing...
...President was in and out of [Betty's] suite." But no one seems to think Currie--with her religious core, her sensible attire and her hair pulled back in a no-nonsense chignon--would cover up for untoward behavior. "She's no Rose Mary Woods," says longtime friend Paul Costello. "Betty's very straight," says a co-worker. "It's hard to imagine her helping [Clinton] get away with anything. It's not her style...