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Thus, on Dallas' WFAA last week, began the kind of candid interview that Manhattan might have smothered with a grey-flannel gag. With his lipstick and powder scrubbed away and his long, curled hair combed back, a 22-year-old transvestite named Darrell Wayne Kahler faced the cameras of Confession. He was the latest subject in a line of drug addicts, prostitutes, murderers and alcoholics to answer the unrehearsed questions of Interrogator Jack Wyatt...
Police have claimed that Thompson would have been shot if the officers at the scene had been able to clear the crowd. "This was not a gag," said Acting Chief Richard J. Linehan...
Second to Fernandel himself, what makes the film come over so well is the excellent script by Gerald Cartlier. Never does it lag and never does he overwork a gag. Director Jean Boyer also deserves credit for this excellent bubbling flow that is the strength of the picture...
...Bishop Sheen, and Lawyer Joseph Welch quietly flaying the late Senator McCarthy: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." Milton Berle, the granddaddy of TV comics, came out of retirement to give the Infant its best moments. Shorn of his gag-machine brassiness, Berle strolled through his old studio, recalling warmly, yet a little wearily, how "back there at the beginning, TV was a great opportunity for anybody who was hammy enough to say 'Here...
Along Manhattan's Madison Avenue, where no one ups periscope without first checking with the research boys, admen were passing around the latest gag...