Word: kramden
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...traditional nuclear family this fall is Roseanne. Pudgy comedian Roseanne Barr plays a working-class mom grappling with a dull factory job, three hyperactive kids and her lazy but lovable porker of a husband (John Goodman). Barr's sullen sarcasm -- a cross between Erma Bombeck and Alice Kramden -- is a cry of revolt against years of cheery sitcom parents. Says Mom after the kids run out the door: "Quick, they're gone. Change the locks...
When Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Director-Librettist James Lapine completed their Pulitzer-prizewinning musical Sunday in the Park with George in 1984, they began exploring two new ideas: to create from scratch a classic myth or fairy tale for the stage and to bring together Lucy, Ralph Kramden and other memorable sitcom characters in a single overlapping story for a TV special. Eventually the two plans sort of fused. Instead of the sitcom figures, the authors decided to jumble larkingly together the characters and archetypes popularized by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. The strikingly original yet completely...
When I saw your article about that merry gang of architect-builders, the Jersey Devil (AMERICAN SCENE, April 27), I was impressed. Imagine, a house shaped like a football! But there was no modest house in the shape of a coffee cup for a waitress or Ralph Kramden for a bus driver. Unfortunately, these renegade architects, for all their noble ideals, are merely creating playgrounds for the wealthy. Come on, build me, a simple workingman, a house that looks like a guitar or a fox terrier...
...advertising. But to millions of TV viewers in California, Texas and Arizona, he is Fred Rated, the wild-and-crazy huckster who has appeared in some 800 commercials for the Federated Group, a Los Angeles-based electronics chain. In Stevens' wacky TV career, he has impersonated The Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden and Miami Vice's Sonny Crockett, played a man who gets attacked by rabid frogs and even starred as a Santa Claus who turns into a werewolf. His public appearances at Federated stores attract hundreds of autograph seekers. Most important, since his TV debut in 1982, Federated's sales have...
Ralph and Ed. Kramden and Norton. The names are permanently linked together and set in that perfectly drab, 1950s New York City apartment occupied by The Honeymooners. Jackie Gleason, 69, and Art Carney, 66, reprised their famous roles once for a TV special seven years ago, but they have not otherwise worked together. Explains Gleason: "The only way Art and I could do something, to play characters who were not the Honeymooners, was if we did real people." This month they got their chance. They are filming a TV movie about two famed undercover Prohibition agents, Izzy Einstein...