Word: klugman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sitcoms, on the other hand, are cheaper to produce and almost always do well in reruns. The trouble with most of the newcomers is that they look like reruns already. You Again (Jack Klugman as a divorced father) and Tough Cookies (Robby Benson as a Chicago police detective) are about as dumb and hackneyed as the genre gets. CBS's Fast Times, though based on a smart, funny movie about high school life, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is nearly as lame. The problems start with the casting. As Spicoli, the spaced-out surfer played hilariously in the film...
Lyndon Johnson once said about his job, "I wish my mother had lived to see me President." But Jack Klugman, 61, who is preparing for a one-man show on L.B.J., can top that. The veteran actor, best known as TV's crime-busting medical examiner Quincy, quipped: "I wish my mother had lived to see me first a doctor, then President of the U.S." James Prideaux's Lyndon, which opens in Wilmington, Del., next week and moves to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the following week, tells L.B.J.'s life from his halcyon days...
Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment. He is an uncompromising myth buster with a taste for bruising intimacy. Neil Klugman of Goodbye, Columbus and Alexander Portnoy were devoid of sentimentality and nostalgia for a lost paradise. Their Newark neighborhood had its charms, but it was basically a staging area for an assault on the sophisticated culture of New York, perhaps even London and Paris. The golden ghettos of suburbia struck them as Newarks with wall-to-wall carpeting...
...dieter who became popcorn-addicted in 1980 was Actor Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy), who found in popcorn the answer to his craving for snacks. Klugman is spreading the good munch via Jack's Corn Crib, a planned chain that has already opened two outlets in Manhattan and expects to have at least 100 franchised cornporiums in business by 1985. Klugman uses no salt in his recipes and a maximum of 5% sugar. He has brisk competition in New York from Popcorn Paradise, which is adopting a movie-palace lobby decor on a moderate scale...
...stores to sell only 32, the selection depending on location. Why 32? "There is usually a Baskin-Robbins around with 31 flavors of ice cream," says Bird. "When you're the new guy on the block, you've got to go the other fellow one better." Klugman plans to get his soft corn into the theaters. As the saying goes, without popcorn there would not be any movies...