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...Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald epic Rose Marie (1936) offers the couple known to Hollywood as the Singing Capon and the Iron Butterfly in a Canadian Mountie scene that must be heard to be disbelieved. Even in the '40s, MGM knew that there were different strokes for different folks. Esther Williams could do them all, in a series of swimming-pool epics that for elaborate waste of money, have been unmatched since the days of the Regency. To watch Williams posing in gold lame, rising from red smoke and diving into a cerulean swimming pool is to understand the blessedness...
Good Times. CBS. Friday, 8:30-9 p.m. E.D.T. Already renewed for next season, this is yet another "relevant" sitcom spun off the earlier creations of Tandem Productions (All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude). Indeed, Florida (Esther Rolle) used to be Maude's maid. Now relocated in a Chicago housing project, she is seen as the matriarch of a black family that talks Burbank jive and is short of money. But in composition, attitudes and ambitions, the household is indistinguishable from the white families that heretofore have had exclusive domain in this TV neighborhood. There...
Almost Hysterical. Until she began keeping charts for the Jordan-Levitz clinic, Esther Rich, a 29-year-old Philadelphia housewife, never realized that she ate a little something, usually candy, every two hours. As a remedy, Levitz suggested that she stretch the time between snacks little by little. "The first time I tried it I was almost hysterical," Rich confesses. "I was only able to wait 20 minutes. The second time I distracted myself by calling someone on the telephone." After-dinner snacking in the kitchen was a particular problem. Now Rich washes her dinner dishes in the morning...
...sort of WAC usherette motif, are lovably running the train's U.S.O. canteen. The 40s collage includes precautionary Army VD lectures, Glenn Miller band impersonations, little jokes about "going all the way," period slang ("cow juice and Java") and a likable fantasy of America's postwar dreams-Esther Williams bathing beauties backstroking across the dry stage...
...enterprise. "Every government is run by liars," Stone says. "Establishment reporters know a lot of things I don't know, but a lot of what they know isn't true." The film shows Stone in his small office, interrupting a piece to take a telephone subscription order, and shows Esther Stone, his wife and the Weekly's circulation manager, sorting bills on their living room table. Unfortunately, one thing the film never shows is a printed edition of the Weekly. Bruck missed an obvious opportunity to convey the flavor of Stone's publication...