Word: huck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like school--it's a Huck Finn syndrome, they want to light out for the territory," he added...
Sometimes ABC stars even do more than that. As Happy Days grows older the relationship between the bad boy hero Fonz and the good boy hero Richie (Ron Howard) is becoming TV's own pop version of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. John Ritter of Three's Company has managed to make a popular sex symbol out of a refreshingly non-macho male. Soap, after a slow start, has begun to change its intially idiotic female leads (Cathryn Damon and Katherine Helmond) into believable middle-aged heroins. Though there is much to lament about ABC's blockbusters...
...dirty joke. Jimmy Carter seems incapable of performing such a humanizing service for himself. In an odd way, Billy does it for him. Billy compensates for his brother's sweet-eyed psalm-singing and persnicketiness; Billy drinks beer on Sunday morning instead of going to church; he is Huck Finn against the town's respectables. He has become something of a folk hero; in doing so he has begun to cut his celebrity loose from his sibling's and achieved a media being...
...attitude might have served well in the halcyon days of Huck Finn and Penrod, when pranks were the principal business before the courts. Says Judge Gelber: "The juvenile courts weren't conceived for the brutal act. They were created with the image of Middle America...
...adapting Twain but in the range of emotions the six tales explore. From the wry humor of "Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" to the broad comedy "Mrs. MacWilliams and the Lightening" to the lyricism of life on the raft (before the steamboat intrudes) in that famous nineteenth chapter about Huck and Jim, the People's Theater shows that Twain, like most everyone else, is not as simple as he seems...