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...When you talk of the radio of the '20s. '30s and '40s, how can you not mention the great comedians? You quoted Fred Allen, but how can you pass up Jack Benny, Joe Penner, Fibber McGee, Eddie Cantor. Easy Aces, Amos 'n' Andy and, for the real old-timers around. Block and Sully...
...music (including Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra and Tommy Dorsey), the radio programs (Fibber McGee, Jack Benny) are carefully chosen, as if reality could be totally re-created out of air waves. Billboards, movie marquees, houses, cars, clothes-all are so fastidiously arranged that the movie begins to look like an elaborately decorated show window, or a diorama for a contemporary American history class. It is also just about as moving. As a young critic, Bogdanovich paid lavish tribute to such American masters as John Ford and Howard Hawks. But the harder Bogdanovich strains after emulation, the more it eludes...
...graveyard. The event is a funeral for a man named Cock Certain. It is a starry night, and four sad people have gathered to say goodbye to the man who breathed life into them all. These people- called Miss Indigo Jones, Robin Breast Western, Filigree Bones and Fibber Kidding- cannot agree on any specific facts concerning their dearly beloved, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is what they do agree on: It is all no use. No use to go on living in a world where all we can wait for is the inevitable senseless killing- the death...
...promised to explain why I don't feel as guilty now about chickening out of the H-RSC. Even if I could have mustered up every fibber of my body and put my life together on an airplane down to Washington and burned myself on the steps of the Capitol, the war still would have gone on and on. There is no machinery built into this republic to respond to the anguish of its citizens. There is of course next Wednesday and somehow we again wait and trust...
Died. Bea Benaderet, 62, character actress, who starred as the folksy, warmhearted Kate Bradley in TV's Petticoat Junction; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. After years of bending her voice on radio into every accent from Brooklyn to the Ozarks as a comic foil for Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny, Bea finally got a chance to show her face on TV. In 1950, she appeared as Blanche Morton on The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show and in 1962, as Cousin Pearl on The Beverly Hillbillies, before graduating to Petticoat Junction...