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E.D.T.) People who go to the improvisational comedy clubs in New York City and Los Angeles know that Jimmy Brogan is probably the best comic to hit that circuit since Robin Williams. ABC wisely signed him up, only to cast him in this tired Mork & Mindy retread about an angel who moves to earth. Unlike the manic Williams, who makes a guest appearance in Blue's first episode, Brogan is a quiet, reflective comedian. In his stand-up act he functions as a bemused straight man, playing off the audience, and does not deliver a set routine. ABC would...
Instead the network has plunked Brogan down in a household of bland orphans and demanded that he clown around like Mork to keep the show flying. That is not Brogan's talent, but then this sitcom is so badly written even Williams would not be able to save it. Opposite CBS's 60 Minutes, Blue should be put out of its misery very soon. ABC owes this series' misused star another shot...
...Essay "The Politics of the Box Populi" [June 11], Lance Morrow asks, "What is the political content of Mork & Mindy?"He should realize that even now, Morkese is slipping past the international dubbers into the languages of every tongue and tribe. Today's young viewers may some day meet in the U.N. with a fork-fingered felicitation and a "Nanoo, nanoo...
Strictly speaking, Mork & Mindy may not be political, but neither is the show "almost entirely innocent of meaning." Its overall message is not only that alien is acceptable, but that different is endearing...
...Mood on the public address system, the crowd watches the weigh-in conducted by Jake Blazer, 43. Each chicken is expertly thrust headfirst into a metal funnel under a scale hanging from a tripod. Only once is Blazer pecked, by an irritable banty named Mindy (Mork, next up, is more docile). A leghorn named White Flyer escapes in the transfer from box to scale and flies into heavy brush a hundred feet away. The fishnet squad is dispatched. Frets Owner Andy Cline of McArthur, Ohio, "I just hope she gets rested...