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...Pump Boys are the four fellows who ladle out the high octane on Highway 57, somewhere in the South. The Dinettes are the Cupp sisters, Prudie and Rhetta, who run the Double Cupp Diner next door. "Y'all come down to the Double Cupp," they sing, "where you know we'll treat you nice." Beyond that, the plot is as thin as a dime tip. Like many recent musicals-Sophisticated Ladies, for example-Pump Boys is a night of songs, 20 in all. Most have been written by Jim Warm, who also plays the chief gas jockey...
Mulling this over one morning at a diner, Don Hewitt (now executive producer of 60 Minutes) looked up at the menu on the wall - HAMBURGERS 35? SOUP 25?-and asked to buy the sign itself. With it a politician's name could be inserted in the slots of the menu board and photographed in no time at all. Though news was prestigious, sports made the big profits ($10 million for CBS on Super Bowl XVI) and got the big budgets. Out of sports' costly innovativeness have come instant replay, slow motion, the isolated camera, the reverse-action camera...
Lavishly choreographed by Danny Daniels, and at times hilarious, these forays into the protagonists' fantasy lives provide a welcome respite from the general gloom. As director Herbert Ross leads us relentlessly from one depression cliche to another--the deserted prairie highway, the Edward Hopper diner, the seedy hotel room complete with flashing neon sign outside the window and the El rumbling past--the song and dance numbers become an escape, not only for Arthur and Eileen, but for the audience as well. And there's a lot to escape in Pennies from Heaven. For Arthur and Eileen, sexual exploitation, grim...
Nostalgia is up, conveying everything from Early American to the 1950s. A card depicting a 40-year-old trolley car diner could be one of this year's bestsellers. The superbestseller, surpassing all other artists, remains Nostalgia-Monger Norman Rockwell. (A favorite is a horrified Junior watching Santa dropping his beard as he kisses Mom and thus reveals himself...
...Take out." Gregory yelled into the main room of the diner, and soon enough, one of the blue-jean clad ballerinas was there to escort the sealed styrophome container...