Word: muppet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GREAT MUPPET CAPER...
...this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis. But how long can he play second banana, on whose sleek skin the other actors do pratfalls? Perhaps his next film will give him the break, and the shining costar, he needs: Muppet Movie II, with Miss Piggy. Otherwise, Grodin may grow arm-weary trying to get comic capital out of unproductive S.L.O.T. machines...
...after scene, behavioral comedy attempts to engage in a dialogue with slapstick satire. But these are different comic languages, and the two forms finally fall silent in defeat. Maybe Henry should appear on TV less and watch it more. Any episode of M*A*S*H, Taxi or The Muppet Show has more laughs and pathos per minute than this impeachable farce...
What's this? Big Bird doing Firebird, or perhaps Swan Lake? No, nothing that featherbrained. But Choreographer George Balanchine, 76, is planning to cast Muppets in a production of L'Enfant et les Sortilèges to be seen on public television next spring. Muppet Designer Kermit Love, who is creating the dancing puppets, invited the choreographer to the Sesame Street set to watch Muppetry in action...
Gradually and purposefully, like J.R. slithering toward a voluptuous Texas belle, Dallas has ascended the international ratings until it rivals The Muppet Show as the world's most popular TV series. In Johannesburg, where Dallas is No. 1 in the ratings, Cabinet ministers refuse speaking engagements on Tuesday nights, knowing their constituency will be at home with the Ewings. In Hong Kong, Dallas is a hit with both the local population and the American businessmen stationed there; expatriates who return briefly to the States have been known to call their wives with news of episodes aired...