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What began as a defiant form of anti-shtik has become a dominant mode in the funny-peculiar '80s. It is saturating the big screen with the films of Albert Brooks (the mime), Steve Martin (funny balloon animals), Murray Langston (the paper-bagged Unknown Comic), Martin Mull (the Fernwood 2-Night talk-show host), Andy Kaufman (heterosexual wrestling), Lily Tomlin (Wayne Newton) and the now-ready-for-prime-time cutups of NBC's Saturday Night Live. It took over TV years ago-in 1975, when S.N.L. hit the air and became a focal point for the new comedy...
Steve Martin filters laugh-a-minute zaniness through Redford good looks: goy meets Berle. Mull intones mantras of malevolent banality. Tomlin incarnates sorority queens and shopping-bag ladies with the intensity of Piaf and the emotional range of either Hepburn. Brooks works the baroque side of the street. Kaufman's characters populate a doll's house of the bizarre. They are as different from one another as bright young people can be. But they share a basic belief-that the business of America is show business -and a fascination with the detritus of the entertainment industry. Steve Allen...
...President-elect Ronald Reagan finally began to fill his administration with Harvard graduates in five of his eight announced Cabinet-level posts--University faculty members aiding the transition operation continued to write memos and mull over job offers...
...very good. Whenever he approves of a building, the business does well in it. I don't understand it, but I do believe it. He can tell by looking at the layout of a place how the business will be." We drive for a little while as I mull over this statement of conviction...
...will be several miniature oohs at the smaller bronzes and the medallions and the three ears of wheat fashioned in gold, life-size and perfect (used as a funerary offering). But the main effect of the show will come after it has left the eyes and visitors begin to mull over the enormity of what is implied here. Most exhibitions create silence. This one should cause insistent talk. How else should we respond to a man who was once the world...