Word: laugh-in
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...eliminating antique appendages like adjectives and adverbs, Segal created the Evelyn Wood Primer without the Evelyn Wood course. His novel naturally made the critics apoplectic. What more serious writers hoped to develop-the cinematic novel-Segal achieved rather grossly in a pulp classic that has more blackouts than Laugh-In or Meander. The GWTW Margaret Mitchell shouldn't be living at this hour to see how Hollywood has bastardized the best-seller. Segal's screenplay has so little substance that the movie had to be padded just to make it feature length...
...also has a house lyricist, Garry Wells, a sometime Laugh-In writer, who crafts promotion slogans and monthly gag tapes taken by many stations. Usually identifying themselves as "The Fun One" in their towns, these subscribers broadcast intermittent programming spoofs ("Notre Dame 20, William and Mary 6 each") and sappy little one-liners ("I know my wife is trying to poison me−she wants me to eat at home...
Actress Judy Carne, who turned up with the cut on Laugh-In, was told, "It's untidy." "That's it. You've got it," she replied. "The messier it is, the better," says Stylist Gene Shacove. "If an ape cut it himself, it would probably be a bigger hit." Manhattan's Paul McGregor, longtime advocate of the cut, gave it its first public exposure a year and a half ago atop the head of Actress Jane Fonda. McGregor, who sees the style as not only ageless but sexless, has monkeyed with Warren Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald...
...Presidential Adviser Robert Finch, who once considered an acting career, starred in the segment. And waiting in the wings is Spiro Agnew. The Vice President will introduce Red Skelton's new fall show on NBC. Lest he carry this show-business gig too far, Agnew then nixed a Laugh-In stint-even though his boss did a turn with Rowan and Martin in pre-presidential days...
Married. Judy Carne, 31, Laugh-In's "Sock-It-To-Me" girl, presently starring in Broadway's The Boy Friend; and Robert Bergmann, 23, producer of TV commercials; she for the second time, he for the first; in a Unitarian ceremony attended by 100 onlookers and held at dawn in Manhattan's Central Park...