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...develop their gifts." These fortunate few are much more significant than critics seeking raw social realism will admit. Well outside the mainstream, the Cheever people nonetheless reflect it admirably. What they do with themselves is what millions upon millions would do, given enough money and time. And their creator is less interested in his characters as rounded individuals than in the awful, comic and occasionally joyous ways they bungle their opportunities...
...gibberish as "nano, nano" (meaning hello) and "nimnul" (meaning jerk) can send audiences?and producers?into paroxysms of delight: last week the show shot up to seventh place in the Nielsens. "This guy is going to be a superstar with or without this series," observes Dale McCraven, the co-creator of Mork & Mindy. "He's such an overwhelming personality that he could never play a regular sitcom husband with a wife and kids. It would be a waste of his talent, a waste of his craziness...
Before you turn the page, I would like to present this issue's "Cheer of the Week" award to a cheer which I heard Saturday at the Coulumbia game. It goes to the creator of a remarkably melodic ditty, rich in imagery, and destined to enter the realm of Harvardiana--"Harass them, harass them, make them relinquish the spheroid...
Charles Schulz, creator of Snoopy: "We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel...
...Olsen is at her best. She painstakingly identifies the societal attitudes and practices that leech away a person's strength and sense of self before he or she ever gets to the stage of being an artist, and again after he or she does, against all odds, become a creator...