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...From Your Show of Shows. The brilliant Kenmore Square scheduling people paired this parent piece with The Producers. In the fifties, Sid Caeser looked over the television landscape like one of the Easter Isonad heads might. Slaving for the boss were Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Imogene Coca, Howard Morris, Carl Reiner and some other people they could use in the United States Senate. The product was called Your Show of Shows and it has never been equalled...
...wooden seats wedged around the grass playing surface at a dozen different angles. "Fenway Park," John Updike once wrote, "is a lyric little bandbox of a ball park. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg." Fenway represents the essence of the game: its powerful, alluring character has drawn millions of New Englanders inside the confines of its red-brick walls summer after summer for the last six decades...
...Father Ernst Alt, a pastor in a nearby community. For ten months, beginning last September and continuing until shortly before her death, the two priests conducted an intermittent series of exorcisms to rid Anneliese of six demons they believed possessed her. The efforts were of no avail. About Easter time, her convulsions returned with renewed ferocity, and she began to refuse food and drink. No doctors were called...
...surprising, then, that The Easter Parade picks up a subject that is already senile through overuse: unfulfilled women, married and single. Yates briskly traces some 40 years in the lives of two sisters, Sarah and Emily Grimes. When their parents are divorced, the little girls grieve over the loss of their loving, ineffectual father. Neither one has much luck with men after that. Sarah eventually marries a habitual wife beater (because, in 1941, he looks "just like Laurence Olivier") and stoically takes her lumps for two decades. Emily wins a college scholarship, is briefly married to an impotent philosophy professor...
Many readers now expect their slice of life to be served up with a side order of irony or existential razzmatazz.They will not find it in The Easter Parade. Yates does not condescend to his heroines; he refuses to strike attitudes about their failures or mock their limitations. "I'm almost 50 years old," Emily says at the end, "and I've never understood anything in my whole life...