Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boggs of Louisiana; Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co.; David Freeman, chairman of the T.V.A.; Russell Peterson, former Governor of Delaware and president of the National Audubon Society; John Sawhill, president of New York University and former administrator of the Federal Energy Administration; Martin Ward, president of the plumbers and pipefitters union; Jerome Wiesner, president of M.I.T...
...Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. When he finally seized centerstage, he stopped being a straight man and became a live -or maybe frazzled-wire. Murray is a master of comic insincerity. He speaks in italics and tries to raise the put-on into an art form. His routine resembles Steve Martin's, with a crucial difference. Where Martin is slick and cold, Murray is disheveled and vulnerable. One feels that Murray's manic behavior is a cover for some rather touching neuroses...
...Cruel Shoes, Martin...
BORN. To E. Howard Hunt, 60, convicted Watergate burglar and author of 54 books, and his wife of 18 months, Laura Martin Hunt, 34, a former Spanish teacher: a son; in Miami. The child, named Austin Dairing, is her first and his fifth (four by his late first wife...
...frogs on tiny crutches." As is true with the TV show, human actors have no trouble playing with Muppets. Bob Hope sells ice cream at a fair, and Kermit chooses dragonfly ripple. Milton Berle runs Madman Mooney's Hubcap Heaven, a very used car lot, and Steve Martin is loathsomely realistic as a hostile waiter. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy also make a brief appearance, one of their last. Jim Henson, the tall, skinny creator of short, froggy Kermit, has made a gallant gesture in dedicating the movie to Bergen's "memory and magic...