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...Alice, the wisecracking maid (Ann B. Davis) -- has puttered along in reruns ever since the show's cancellation in 1974 after five seasons on ABC. Now it has re-emerged, on the stage, in a bizarre bit of media reversal called The Real Live Brady Bunch. Mounted by a Chicago alternative- theater troupe, the show is alarmingly simple in concept. Episodes of the old sitcom are merely re-enacted, scene for scene, line for line. (A new episode is performed every week; a game-show parody fills out the evening...
...mouth as Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Joan Rivers and the irrepressible Regis & Kathie Lee. Stand-up comic Jenny Jones' new daytime show started off with a bigger initial lineup of stations than any syndicated talk show in history. Montel Williams, a former naval-intelligence officer and motivational speaker, emcees an issue-oriented program currently being test- marketed in 15 cities. Veteran game-show host Chuck Woolery chats with Hollywood celebrities on another new syndicated show, while Entertainment Tonight's John Tesh does the same on NBC's One on One. Ron Reagan...
...show Smith the sagging economy and spirit of Flint, a company town ailing from thousands of GM pink slips. Between fruitless visits to Smith's offices, Moore chats with Flint's elite (seen spending a fun, fund-raising night at the city jail) and homegrown celebrities (like game-show host Bob Eubanks, who tells a joke that manages to be anti-gay and anti-Jewish). He follows the rounds of a county employee evicting delinquent tenants; he talks with a woman who raises rabbits for pets and table meat. Strewn through the film are news clips that dramatize the city...
...scenes of life in Flint constitute the best part of the movie. Pat Boone and Anita Bryant come through, singing inspirational songs and uttering fatuities for Moore's camera. Game-show host (and Flint native) Bob Eubanks does his weary routine and very possibly kills what is left of a fringe career by telling two disgusting jokes to the inquiring reporter. Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, a Miss Michigan who is soon to be Miss America, flashes false smiles and desperately changes the subject when Moore asks her to comment on local conditions. Meantime, the more substantial citizenry gets behind...
Animal-rights groups have steadily gathered force. Last month Trans-Species Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue carrying signs and taunting fur-coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel...