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...city councilor Raymond Chapin quips to a reporter. In the next breath he grows serious, recalling how, when he first joined the party two decades ago, it sent its members to visit the Soviet Union, "telling us it was a workers' paradise. Today," he acknowledges, "that would make people laugh." Outside city hall, activist Gerard Kourland is selling L'Humanite, the party organ, and patiently explaining the difference between the Russian and French parties: "We officially gave up on the dictatorship of the proletariat in 1976. And even before then, we had our doubts...
...tumultuous personality. During Guys and Dolls rehearsals, exasperated by Isabel Bigley's tentative attempts at I'll Know, Loesser stormed onstage and punched his leading lady in the nose. The show's Adelaide, Vivian Blaine, remembers him more fondly: "A lovable, raucous man with a deliciously evil laugh." Ever restless, he'd catch a few hours' sleep, start his composing (on a silent piano) at 4 a.m. and be ready for a martini at 8 a.m. "After all," says Sullivan, with whom Loesser fell in love when she sang the female lead in Most Happy Fella, "it was lunchtime...
...spots of greenery on the sitcom desert can mostly be traced to the influence of one unlikely hit: ABC's The Wonder Years. That nostalgic sitcom, with its first-person narration, absence of a laugh track and eye for childhood detail, has sparked a minor trend toward more sensitive, autobiographical sitcoms. One of the most widely anticipated comes from Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties), who has based his new series for CBS, Brooklyn Bridge, on his experiences growing up in an extended Jewish family in the 1950s. Judging from the pilot script (the show is still being finished), Brooklyn Bridge...
Stay out of my way. Send the kids to Grandma's. I've just seen the latest comedies, and I'm in no mood to laugh...
...into giggle fits; a valentine can set me weeping; nearly any episode of The Simpsons can do both. So I am no emotional slug. When I enter a movie theater, I bring high spirits and modest needs. I merely say, as Clint Eastwood might, "Go ahead. Make me laugh...