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...Both are canny professionals who grew up with the medium. Lear served an apprenticeship as a comedy writer in the '50s and '60s with Martin Lewis, George Goble, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Andy Williams, among others. Yorkin staged such shows as Martin and Lewis's, Gobel's, and Dinah Shore's, later directed specials for Jack Benny and Fred Astaire. Together, as partners in a venture called Tandem Productions they revolutionized TV comedy by adapting a British TV hit into "All in the Family...
...minutes." Simmons and Lear wrote and delivered a routine in two hours, and Thomas liked it enough to use it. In the audience was David Susskind, then a New York agent, who was so impressed that he signed Lear and Simmons as writers for a TV show called "The Ford Star Review...
Losing Faith in Ford...
...Firestone tires were made of bicycle inner tubes patched together with bubble gum, vehicles are not supposed to flip over at highway speeds in the event of a tire blowout [BUSINESS, June 4]. Who is the automaker trying to fool? Let's not forget that the fine people at Ford are the ones who sold the American public the Pinto. "Safety is job No. 1"? Sorry, Ford, but you have completely lost my confidence. JON POPE Warwick...
...sooooo 1954. Paul looked less like a genius- guitarist than an irrelevant uncle. Les and Mary did commercials for the Robert Hall clothing chain ('When the values go up-up-up/ And the prices go down-down- down') and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act, and their marriage. (Ford died, at 52, in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery; it was one of the first operations of its kind - another Les Paul innovation. Back from the dead, he was named to the Rock Hall of Fame in 1988. At the induction ceremony, Jeff Beck...