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After just six weeks on ABC's Sunday-night schedule, America's Funniest Home Videos is the newest member of Nielsen's Top Ten. The show's premise is shamelessly simple. Viewers send in funny clips they have shot with their camcorders -- everything from cute baby antics to homemade music videos. The producers sift through the best stuff, organize it around loose themes (sports, animals, weddings) and embellish it with sound effects and wisecracks from host Bob Saget...
...Book of Marvels soundly succeeds when it explores the impact the show has on Lila Mae, and on her relationship with others--especially her godless co-workers. The funniest moments occur in the convalescent home. In perhaps the most outrageous scene of the book, Lila Mae's co-worker Norma "decides," after some sexual difficulties and a break-up with her boyfriend, that she is a lesbian. She cuts her hair, drops her voice a couple of octaves, and conspicuously marches about the home. Another co-worker explains to the naive Lila Mae that Norma has "gone over...
...Noonan, who retired from politics with Bush's Inaugural Address, has written the funniest, most richly textured, nervously self-effacing and deftly observed political memoir likely to come out of the 1980s. What I Saw at the Revolution succeeds because it violates every rule of corridors-of-power autobiography. As Noonan explains at the outset, "Most White House books have been written by men and have an unspoken subtitle: What I Did with Power. Many have another: If Only They'd Listened to Me, the Fools! But I didn't have much power, and sometimes if they'd listened...
...never said "fiends" per se. "Bloodsucking geckos," I've said. Look, the Russians are wimping out and we're running out of bad guys. If the alternatives are mullahs, drug lords and the press, I'll always go with the ones who dress the funniest. Have you seen George Will's little bow ties...
...Wobegon (Pastor Ingqvist, Keillor reported with approval, shocked his congregation at Thanksgiving by urging them to "sin boldly"). Tom Keith, P.H.C.'s sound-effects wizard, was on hand to provide, among other arcanities, the splash of George Washington's silver dollar falling short into the Rappahannock. The show's funniest sketch, a serial, produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything (a shoe-box apartment), move to Seattle and marry him. Keillor says that when he started to write...