Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conceived by white men in the mid-1800s, minstrel shows evolved a format as rigid as a TV sitcom: performers, usually white, put on blackface makeup and offered up cakewalks, "coon songs" and darky-dialect jokes. Blackface survived until Al Jolson's mammy routines in the early 1900s, as proof that nobody found them offensive -nobody except black entertainers whose talents were suffocated by parody and caricature. Minstrel Man (CBS, Wednesday, March 2, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) provides a rare view of minstrelsy through the eyes of those victims...
...minstrel circuit, he teams up with Charlie Bates, a shady con-mannerist portrayed by Tony Award Winner Ted Ross (The Wiz). The stage is still the white man's domain, however, and Bates, Brown and their fellow black performers must stick to the formula of blackface makeup and plantation humor. They are forced, in vaudeville's looking-glass world, to imitate the white man's parody of blacks...
...titled "Public Lives." The Liz-Dick nuptial parody is part of a six-week series starring the British-born Rigg, 38, who also plays English Actress Celia Johnson in the 1946 movie Brief Encounter. Rigg is especially proud of her transformation into Taylor. Says she: "I did the major makeup work myself. The black wig, the beauty spot-and showing off the cleavage...
...title role, Donald Sutherland has the thankless task of trying to make something positive out of a negation. Heavy-lidded, stiff in his makeup and costume, he never shakes off the lugubriousness that has worked to better advantage in some of his previous roles...
There are many variations. A classic: the perfectly executed "air kiss," often performed by two women who dislike each other, who wear makeup they don't want smeared and who both resemble Bette Davis in her middle years. They approach, incline the planes of their cheeks. Three to four inches from contact, they close their eyes in a split-second transport of fraudulent bliss, and smack their lips minutely upon nothing, as if releasing little butterflies. A somewhat rarer treat: the "hair tangle," which requires a tall, long-haired woman and a shorter man; woman inclines head to offer...