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...time Yorkin and Lear have taken the BBC's Steptoe & Son, about the tribulations of a cockney junk dealer and his son, and Americanized it by setting it in a low-income black milieu. In the process they have come up with an inspired piece of casting: Redd Foxx, a black comic famed for his blue nightclub material...
...Angeles junk dealer, Foxx plays a whining parent who dominates his son with phony heart attacks and other transparent but successful ruses. In last week's opening episode, there was an occasional echo of Archie Bunker's WASPy bigotry. "There ain't nothing uglier than a 90-year-old white woman," Foxx said at one point. When his son said he wanted to make a fortune "just like Aristotle Onassis," Foxx eyed his black skin and observed: "Only one difference between you and Onassis: he started out a Greek...
...Internal Revenue Service compete for his paycheck. For the past three months Louis, 56, has been hospitalized in Denver with an emotional disorder. This week brought a glimmer of cheer at last. Louis' friends and admirers-among them: Mahalia Jackson, Bill Cosby, B.B. King and Redd Foxx -plan a benefit "Salute to the Champ...
...Foxx is not the pacesetter that Gregory was, though; black comics are now sufficiently self-assured to establish the tone and develop the material that suits them best. Bill Cosby-the richest and probably most successful of his colleagues-can hardly be labeled a black comic. That is like calling Jack Benny a Jewish comedian. In fact, some blacks tend to denigrate Cosby because they feel he speaks too much to white audiences and does not use blackness itself for material. Says Peter Long: "I don't think Cosby could go into a really tough black club...
...Hack Wilson, Hank Greenberg, Johnny Mize and Maris each did it once; Ralph Kiner, Jimmy Foxx, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle twice; and Ruth four times...