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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A Friars Club Roast. This year, the organization of showfolks skewers Johnny Carson. Alan King is roastmaster with Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Ed McMahon, Don Rickles, Groucho Marx, Flip Wilson and New York Mayor John Lindsay...
HERE'S DICK CAVETT (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* A digest of Dick Cavett's weekday talk show. Guests include Dionne Warwick and Groucho Marx...
...Groucho as Oedipus. Roth sees Portnoy's life as "a masochistic extravaganza," and no one is more aware of this than Portnoy himself. In one of his many hysterical bursts of insight, he cries that he is "torn by desires that are repugnant to my conscience, and a conscience repugnant to my desires." He views himself as the victim in a grim Jewish joke. "Doctor, Doctor," he pleads, "please. I can't live any more in a world given all its meaning and dimension by some vulgar nightclub clown. By some-some black humorist! Because that...
Portnoy wears his Oedipus complex as if it were a festering good-conduct medal that had been stapled to his sternum. But his is a tragedy in which Oedipus is played by Groucho Marx. Mother Portnoy is a vibrant orange-haired vision who has never given up trying to smother her son in the warm pudding of her ample bosom. She surpasses the grotesque stereotype simply because Roth plays her absolutely straight, making her totally and comically unconscious of the unconscious...
...volumes of Superman comics. Merkin adopts the look of the past as well as pasting it together; he owns seven white, plaid or pinstripe suits (all with vest and broad lapels) and 175 ties (mostly pink and lavender), parts his hair like a Van Heusen shirt model, sports a Groucho Marx mustache and smokes Murads...