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...right, everybody, ready for a trip down TV's memory lane? You know the landmarks. Milton Berle and the Men of Texaco. Lucille Ball and the vat of grapes. Edward R. Murrow lashing out at Joe McCarthy on See It Now, and Walter Cronkite interrupting a soap opera to report the death of John F. Kennedy. Carlton Fisk coaxing his home run into fair territory in the 1975 World Series, and the U.S. hockey team striking gold in the 1980 Olympics ("Do you believe in miracles?"). J.R. Ewing getting plugged on Dallas, Archie Bunker shouting insults at Meathead, and Richard...
...next mentor was Avant-Garde Composer Milton Babbitt. Sondheim, straight out of Williams, talked Babbitt into taking him on as a private pupil in structure and theory. He paid with money from a fellowship and stretched the funds by living in bohemian disorder in his father's dining room. Next he tried to break into show business. A few painful years of struggle -- scraping up auditions that led to more auditions, writing and rewriting a show that never got staged because the producer died, going out to Hollywood to write scripts for the TV sitcom Topper -- ended in triumph when...
...outsize cigars and outlandish hyperbole, would have trouble overstating the scope of his popularity. As main attraction and chief architect of The Cosby Show, television's No. 1-rated program for three straight seasons, he dominates the medium as no star has since the days of Lucille Ball and Milton Berle. And he has parlayed his TV success into a multimedia empire that seems to grow like the tall tales the young stand-up comic once spun out of his Philadelphia childhood...
...Biden story didn't end here. If it had, we could at least have given him the Milton Berle award for knowing (and stealing) good material when he sees it. His problems, unfortunately, run deeper and deservedly should KO his presidential candidacy...
...back. Well, sort of. Howdy will be celebrating Howdy Doody's 40th anniversary this fall in + a nationally syndicated TV special. Roger Mure, who produced both the special and the original series on NBC, describes the new Howdy as a "cross between Hollywood and Doodyville." The show will feature Milton Berle, Gary Coleman and Monty Hall, as well as old pals like Robert ("Buffalo Bob") Smith, 69. In recent years Smith has made a second career of appearances at colleges and shopping malls, playing to audiences who grew up on Howdy Doody. Comparing them with the peanut gallery assembled...