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...Born and schooled in Flatbush, Woody flunked out of N.Y.U. and C.C.N.Y. in the same year. But at 17, he was already a success, writing gags for newspaper columnists. Earl Wilson mentioned his name to a show business public relations firm, and Woody was soon writing TV jokes for Herb Shriner, Peter Lind Hayes, Sid Caesar, Art Carney, Garry Moore. In one two-year period (he says) he wrote 25,000 gags. He now gets $1,500 for supplying a comedian with a five-minute...
...last week, when the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers fumbled and bumbled their way through a wacky three-game playoff for the National League pennant. All it proved was that while the club owners could take the boys away from Coogan's Bluff and Flatbush, they could never take the old ways away from the boys. And while the transplanted Bums and Jints staged their comedy of errors. 20 million TV fans sat transfixed with horror and delight. Items...
...western, outdoing themselves as well. Called The Virginian and starring James Drury and Lee J. Cobb this fantastically hyperthyroid oat is only tenuously based on Owen null novel. The background is beautifully filmed in Wyoming in color, and, true enough, the dialogue rings. But the stories could happen in Flatbush, Beirut, or Port of Spain. A real western is an American commedia dell' arte, a stylized and inviolable cliche that is easily destroyed by subtlety and depth psychology...
...after the Giants had clinched the pennant, they faced a young Dodger lefty named Karl Spooner. He fanned 15, and before fading into obscurity the next spring, he excited a winter slogan in Flatbush: "Now we got Spooner sooner...
...Tout." His own voice, when in use, is faintly Flatbush-full of lines like "I sen tout for coffee" and "I had a friend of mine who . . ." The fourth child of a New York lawyer, he had been an actor, magician, mentalist and hypnotist when he tried his first commercial-as a talking flashlight battery-eight years ago. Soon, for another commercial that was used repeatedly, he got $1,700 instead of the $45 he had expected. He called the agency to see if there had been a mistake and, when told that there had not been, decided to enter...