Word: frankener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Struck by Lightning (Sept. 19, CBS, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) What happens when a young high school teacher (Jeffrey Kramer) inherits an old family inn and dis covers that the handyman is Franken stein's monster? Nothing good. This show, an outlandish mixture of Saturday morning cartoon antics and campy horror movie references, has only one asset: Jack Elam's self-deprecating, sex-starved wheeze bag of a monster. Elam's unruly sea of a face makes the late George ("Gabby") Hayes look like Prince Charles. His comic delivery is in the joyful tradition of vintage vaudeville...
...Franken, a promoter who stages two of the indoor season's largest California meets, admits that appearance fees are paid, often in a lump sum to managers of track clubs, who then distribute the cash among members. Asks Franken: "What's wrong with getting paid for doing something well...
...this woman has quite a few toys to clear out of her attic. Either that, or she should audition for "Saturday Night," where she could replace other Harvard alums like Al Franken and Jim Downey, who don't seem to be able to write more than one good show a month...
...Franken got up to leave, because it was already 2 p.m. and he had yet to start writing. He picked up a script from beneath his coffee cup, a skit in which Nessen leaves in the middle of the show. "Don't forget to put 'Kill all preppies' in the article," he smiled...
When that happens, Franken said he would like to return to stand up comedy work with Davis, preferably on the West Coast. "It would really be nice to work alone with Tom again, not having people assigning us things and not having things edited out," he said...