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...theatre near Central Square, records Bruce's next to last performance before his death. By then he was obsessed with his court cases--he spends most of the film reading from transcripts and explaining how his words were twisted in court, and what he really said. One of the funniest bits in the monologue is Bruce's imitation of a vice officer imitating Bruce's act for a grand jury. The cop's reaction is typical; all he can remember are dirty words...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Comedian Of Darkness | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...iron lung; Fernwood 2 Night, the talk show to end all talk shows, is on and running muck. Something like a televised cross between radio's Bob and Ray and print's Mad Magazine, it is Norman Lear's newest and, so far, funniest invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Fernwood and the Gall | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...which Galbraith donated to WGBH's fundraising drive shortly after being named "Funniest Professor of the Century" at last January's Lampoon centennial celebration, brought $19,250 for WGBH's annual fundraising auction from an anonymous buyer in New Hampshire...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Galbraith's Car Brings $19,000 In T.V. Auction | 6/14/1977 | See Source »

...special effects, many of them never attempted or never possible before. Artoo Detoo, for instance, routinely delivers his message from Princess Leia by beaming a foot-high holographic projection of her, moving and talking in 3-D, right into the room. Later, in one of the movie's funniest scenes, Artoo and the wookie play a variant of chess with holographic figures. Instead of a bishop capturing a knight, a little dinosaur jumps a small, ectoplasmic BEM (as sci-fi fans call bug-eyed monsters) and proceeds to devour him. (Losing makes wookies so dyspeptic that Artoo is sagely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: STAR WARS The Year's Best Movie | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...rock reporter, prey to her own propaganda, who bores and beds Allen. Colleen Dewhurst also has a bit part as Annie's WASP mother, who exults in the ham she serves Allen. And then there is Keaton. She has never been much of an actress--perhaps the funniest scene she ever played was her dramatic revelation in Godfather II that she had aborted Al Pacino's baby. But in Annie Hall she is presentable enough as Allen's WASP counterpart; for once, she and Allen seem believably in love...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: A Nervous Romance | 5/19/1977 | See Source »

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