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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are a few less happy sequences, especially one involving Pepe le Pew, the amorous French-accented skunk, and it may be a mistake to use Bugs as a host-narrator. His specialty was one-liners, and a mouthful of words ill suits his style. But why quibble? Jones was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magnificent Obsessives | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Both the honk and those extrasensory ears belong to James Brooks, and if he breaks up at his own jokes, he has a good excuse: Brooks is one of the funniest writers in television history. His offbeat humor animated The MTM Show, a TV icon; it is the moving force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rhoda and Lou and Mary and Alex | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Actually, most of his characters are really aspects of himself. If Flaubert could say "Madame Bovary, c'est moi,"Brooks could c'est the same of Lou, Ted, Rhoda, Phyllis, Murray and the always resistible Sue Ann. "I've identified with everybody but Mary," he admits. Ted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rhoda and Lou and Mary and Alex | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

At that point, as Brooks phrases it, "the inmates took over the asylum." Tinker, the perfect boss, gave his writers nearly total freedom, and the result was not only The MTM Show, but eventually Rhoda and the Lou Grant show. Brooks, Weinberger and a fellow writer-producer, Stan Daniels, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rhoda and Lou and Mary and Alex | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

Yet even that event will probably be transmogrified into comedy. For in Brooks' philosophy, laughter is the only effective painkiller available without a doctor's prescription. "If I were dying in a hospital of a terminal disease," says Taxi Star Judd Hirsch, "I would want Jim Brooks to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rhoda and Lou and Mary and Alex | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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