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...bare feet-with taps taped onto the bottoms. Moore was charmed by the innocent grotesqueness of it all and hired her. The show-not Lily-was a bomb, however, and it took three years in both Detroit and New York cabarets before she got the Big Chance on Laugh-In. When she started rehearsing Ernestine, says Producer George Schlatter, "everybody onstage, every member of the crew knew that something important was happening. Lily did more for us than we did for her. We needed her desperately...
Ernestine was an instantaneous hit in the way only TV can create success. Little kids were immediately imitating Ernestine's "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?" the way they said "dyno-mite" like Good Times' Jimmy Walker last year. Schlatter left Laugh-In in 1972, and the show, reflecting the strait-laced Nixon years, had less room for Tomlin's wild, irreverent humor. Before it folded in 1973, she was suing NBC to be released...
Since then, "Saturday Night" has be ome the most talked a out show since "Laugh-in." Its ratings have consistently climbed, and the waiting period for one of the 200-odd tickets to see it live is over four months. Several of the regular actors, who bill themselves as "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players," have received offers for movie or situation-comedy roles. The standout comedian, Chevy Chase, is considered the heir-apparent to Johnny Carson ("The Tonight Show"). And "Saturday Night" has done all this at a fraction of the cost of a six million dollar woman...
...children who-three times a week in Boston and four in Los Angeles-watch a new show, Infinity Factory, on their TV sets. Each half-hour program has a specific goal: to teach youngsters a mathematical concept, holding their attention with lively gimmicks that are reminiscent of those on Laugh-In and Sesame Street...
...show, produced by Film Maker Jesus Salvadore Treviño, tears along at a breakneck pace to the beat of finger-snapping rock music. Regular features include a spin-off of the Laugh-In cocktail party. Kids dance frantically to music; when it stops, everybody freezes while the camera zooms in on one child, who asks: "What's eight times seven?" The music resumes, then stops, and another child shouts "Fifty-six." In "The Brownstones," another Laugh-In-like skit, children lean out of apartment-house windows singing and joking...