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...loser had to be blissfully out of things; he walked around in a sort of self-assured daze. "Don't blame me, Lady," said the extravagantly out-of-it Oscar Levant in a movie of the 1940s. "I didn't make the world. I barely live...
...embarrassing each other. The mud wrestling is only verbal, but it's still a tiny step from Jerry Springer--and a long way from the stellar font of quiz shows, radio's Information, Please (1938-48), hosted by Clifton Fadiman and featuring the mordant wits Fred Allen and Oscar Levant. Back then folks tuned in to meet people cleverer than they were, not more deranged; and intelligence was an attribute to flaunt, not hide like an appendix scar. Today's game shows might take their cue from another '40s radio favorite, It Pays to Be Ignorant...
Whose Line's current run ends March 17, but it's a good bet to return. The show boasts solid ratings, costs next to nothing to produce and provides priceless laughs for people with three-figure IQs. Somewhere the ghost of Oscar Levant is watching Whose Line, listening to Says You! He may even be smiling...
...funding methods. Also, you failed to include any reference to the many favorable D.A.R.E. evaluations and surveys that exist. And finally, your article said I met with Gilbert Botvin, the author and evaluator of the Life Skills Training antidrug program. In fact, no such meeting took place. GLENN LEVANT President and Founding Director D.A.R.E. America, Worldwide Los Angeles...
...miserable. In this case the problem is exacerbated by the absence of Turbo Man, a perfectly awful action figure, from available shelves and by Langston's rivalry for the elusive doll with one Myron Larabee (the comedian Sinbad), a bomb-toting mailman who has gone permanently postal. Director Brian Levant envisions their holiday world in cheerily surreal terms, and Arnold's other obstacles include an unaccountably savage reindeer, an army of corrupt Santa Clauses and a motorcycle cop who is a sort of uniformed Wile E. Coyote...