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...help wondering, though--as you watch a young man in drag dancing up a storm and then snapping a "Hi, mom," into the audience--how this relic of "gentlemanly" fun has survived, or why. Whatever the topical theme of each show, the jokes always return to that most undergraduate of comical subjects, sex--and the humor is not always only verbal. Would the Pudding audiences find it less funny to see an actress fondle a mop-end than an actor in drag? When the audience guffaws as the kick-line picks up its skirts to reveal red garters and yellow...
...many mysterious chemicals in the innumerable deodorants, detergents, dishwashing liquids, hairsprays, etc., that she can't live without--Tomlin is this year's model of Suzy Homemaker. Struggling to maintain an efficient, happy household, Pat Kramer is the confused, vaguely liberated woman; her license plate reads MS. MOM, Well-versed in pop culture and self-improvement jargon, Pat wants to be the Complete Woman, the mother-lover-maid with her own personal space and identity and everything else Phil Donahue's guests tell her she should be. Of course, nobody really appreciates or notices Pat, until she begins to shrink...
...those long-silent voices sent their relatives in the U.S. into shouts of joy and expressions of affection as the broken threads of family life were tentatively rejoined. At 2:30 a.m., Alice Metrinko picked up her phone in Olyphant, Pa., to hear her son Michael, 34, say, "Hi, Mom." They chatted for 45 minutes. She asked why he had seemed to be hiding from the TV cameramen in Algiers. Well, he said, his shirt was ragged and dirty, and his trousers had no cuffs. He had lost about 40 Ibs. but insisted, "Oh, Mother, I feel fine." His first...
...Make-belief is all we have," he tells another actor, a woman who plays the part of an infant murderer in a television play. Tyte's personal script usually starts with the story that he was orphaned when his parents were killed in a train crash. In truth, Mom and Pop are in a retirement home that Francis never visits. Having eased his way on sympathy, he plays it by ear and keeps an eye open for opportunities. " 'You'll bring your dragon brooch?' he said, speaking of their honeymoon. 'And your little sapphires...
...Harmony (Sesame Street/Warner Bros.). Various pop stars make the playroom rock, gently of course. The idea -a good one-was to gather some songs for kids and about kids that wouldn't reduce Mom and Dad to a gibbering frenzy. Producers Lucy Simon and David Levine recruited talent as diverse as Bette Midler, James Taylor, the Doobie Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, Lindy Waldman and Carly Simon (the co-producer's sister), and let them loose in the realms of whimsy. The results-especially by Taylor, Midler, and Dr. John in a duet with Libby Titus-are easy to take...