Word: eskow
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Dates: during 1969-1969
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...just as everything looks deadly, writer John Eskow comes up with some creations that are grotesque enough to make it all worthwhile: an NBC memorial program on the assassination of "Miss America" host Bert Parks, an unmentionable comment on Jerry Lewis and muscular-distrophy charity campaigns, a hip black guy who insists on being referred to as "colored" and who hates James Brown, a television writer who dreams up the show "Clap City: the continuing story of a gonorrhea epidemic...
BESIDES material like this, Eskow and director Jarry Presko (an alumnus of Richard Scheckner's Dionysus in '69) have a cast that knows just how to kick someone in the groin...
...incompetent David Eisenhower, Mr. Nye always disposes of his chores with a wild sense of reality--a comic precision that tells us he has seen where we are heading and has puked his guts out at the spectacle. He never fails to lift any segment he appears in; writer Eskow has got to raise the whole entertainment up to the standard this comedian sets...
...iconoclastic interview, Seymour Eskow, president of the Suffern, N.Y., Rockland Community College, lambastes four-year universities for condescending toward junior colleges. All too often, says Eskow, "haughty senior college departments" refuse transfer students credit for junior-college courses...