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...original. This Bible's really notable achievements are its simple vocabulary and an attempt at everyday idiom (I Corinthians 13: "I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell"). A better choice than the Living Bible for people who have trouble reading a more traditional version...
After a start seven years ago on Laugh-In, a regular stint on The Sonny and Cher Show, both as comic-actor Murray Langston, and 130 bagged appearances on The Gong Show, the Unknown Comic is on the verge of becoming known. The bag-headed comedian has been offered the lead role, without the bag, in a television pilot called Scared Stiff, about a bumbling private detective. He is also close to doing a syndicated half-hour variety show that would star the Unknown Comic, with...
Much of the nation has. After his first appearance on The Gong show about three years ago, Langston, unemployed and broke, started a mini-national phenomenon with his bagged buffoonery. Imitators galore popped up: an Unknown Disc Jockey, an Unknown Used Car Salesman, a University of Georgia student who ran for class president (and won) as the Unknown Candidate...
...actor's union and I knew if I could get on The Gong Show I could earn the $250 fee they are required to pay. My inspiration was simply money and embarrassment. I needed the cash, but was too embarrassed to appear as a contestant, so I figured the simplest and cheapest disguise would be a paper...
Only NBC is in the chips because Fred Silverman, the network's president, long ago put his bet on "reality programming" like Real People, Games People Play and Speak Up America. It may be a dubious TV genre-mixing 60 Minutes with The Gong Show-but it is one unaffected by the strike. With such shows, plus the World Series, Magazine with David Brinkley, Disney's Wonderful World and new episodes of three old series, NBC can boast that through the end of October, it will air 75% new programming. The capricious god who filched the Olympics from...