Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show's host is "King" Kaiser (Joseph Bologna), a brash, somewhat arrogant comedian with an entourage of aggressively obsequious writers and producers. Any resemblance to Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows is, of course, purely intentional, and in many other ways the film strives to capture the innocent heyday of live TV. My Favorite Year succeeds in this respect, but except for O'Toole's manic star turn, remains at heart a tepid movie...
...glorious spring of 1914, not all is dew-pearled. What with taxes, trade unions, the Irish and the suffragettes, England is going to the dogs. In Russia the throne is tottering and workers are out in the streets demanding democracy. In Germany, the Kaiser's men are oiling the guns of August. The Allies attempt to persuade Russia to engage the Boche on the eastern front. But the Bear hangs tough, and time is short...
DIED. Benjamin Feingold, 81, controversial West Coast pediatrician and allergist who believed that the erratic behavior of hyperkinetic children could be modified by removing food additives from their diets; in San Francisco. Feingold, an administrator for 30 years at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, said that half of the country's estimated 3 million hyperactive children could be helped by his additive-free "Feingold diet...
...Kaiser summed up his view of the ultimate imperative for the United States: The United States has to negotiate with good faith, and reach an agreement on arms control...
...Kaiser described the fierceness of the Reagan administration's anti-Soviet rhetoric as a leading impetus to the growth of the peace movement in Western Europe, saying its power comes mostly from the voice of small, but highly articulate minorities, such as the West German magazine, Der Spiegel...