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Perhaps a better introduction to Prine would be his 1973 album Sweet Revenge, from which four of the 12 songs on this set are culled. Short as a two-minute warning is "Grandpa Was a Carpenter," a song about having relatives whom you love very much but really can't deal with. Prine's grandpa takes him to church, lets him listen to the radio, and then the chorus goes...
...Grandpa was a carpenter, built houses, stores and banks...
Apparently no one but us Californians knows just what a terrific shellacking Sam Hayakawa gave to John Tunney, made especially memorable by the fact that Sam is old enough (almost) to be John's grandpa...
Silly, dirty and about as broad as your grandpa's barn door, How Funny Can Sex Be? has turned out to be one of the few successful foreign films of the year. Full of coarse-ground jokes about some of the more unlikely vicissitudes of love, Italian-style, the film is turning a neat dollar apparently because of, not despite, its defects. The sex in this movie may not be very funny, but it is bawdy enough to be naughty without being graphic enough to offend. In other words, it is a safe sex comedy...
...Grandpa Winston used to hobnob with the high and mighty at No. 10 Downing Street, but Granddaughter Arabella Churchill seems to prefer less lofty companionship. After a two-year stint of fund raising for leper colonies and another two years breeding sheep in Wales, she has now moved into an abandoned slum building in West London and opened a low-priced restaurant for some 200 fellow squatters and other neighborhood residents. "I've always wanted to do something like this," says Arabella, 27. "We don't want to make a profit. We just want to give good meals...