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...midst of a televised cross-country tour, the duo are clear successors to veteran Letterman foil Larry ("Bud") Melman -- with one important difference. Melman was a character played by actor Calvert DeForest. Mujibur Rahman, 34, and Sirajul Islam, 39 ("the boys," as Letterman calls them), are real New Yorkers -- and a real problem for their fellow emigres, who have no illusions about what America is laughing...
...Burns makes his subject come alive by focusing on three crucial people. First is Lee DeForest, who patented the key invention that spawned the radio age -- the three-element vacuum tube -- but emerges as something of a self- promoter and con man. Edwin Howard Armstrong, who made important refinements in De Forest's invention and battled him endlessly in the patent courts, is the film's tragic hero: a bullheaded visionary defeated by people smarter and more ruthless than he. David Sarnoff, the founder of NBC, is one of those ruthless people ("I don't get ulcers; I give them...
...QUESTION for women of career vs. family has been hashed and rehashed enough to deforest the entire Pacific Northwest. Now Hollywood has thrown in its two cents with Baby Boom, ostensibly a social satire that turns serious every once in a while in order to shed some light on this question. Unfortunately, Baby Boom is neither illuminating nor terribly funny...
...favorite pop-satirical time machine, while the Enterprisers try to pass themselves off as primitive earthlings. With the help of Co-Screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (who, in Time After Time, propelled H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper into San Francisco in 1979), they do just fine. Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) brazens his way through a little miracle surgery; Chekov (Walter Koenig), the Russian, has to explain his way out of an American nuclear submarine; Scotty (James Doohan) brings postmodern plastics to Marin County. And Spock, wandering around Golden Gate Park in a Vulcan bathrobe and proving his ineptness with...
...Ormond deForest Seibert Remsenburg...