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...another way-the great backup voices. What today's rock songs lack more than anything else is catchy backup, and "Remember Then" makes that failing obvious. There's a surging "Re-mem-mem. re-mem-mem-member" in a pleasing bass voice at the outset. Later, the repetitions of "oop shoop, shang a lang a ding dong" nicely complement that basic line...
...FABULOUS FUNNIES (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A gallery of comic-strip characters-including Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Prince Valiant and Dick Tracy-leaps onto the TV screen in song-and-dance routines, animated episodes and interviews with such cartoonists as Al Capp, Milton Caniff, Charles Schulz and Rube Goldberg. Carl Reiner is the host...
...James Joyce in his celebrated parody of all English prose since the Venerable Bede, catch the tone of class and time. One hilarious example is a meeting between Lady Chatterley and a real, rather than Law-rentian, gamekeeper who can't abide them words she 'ad picked oop from that Mellors, the previous incumbent. "Look at 'er," the keeper says bitterly, "Lady Chastity 'erself from the 'All! Visitin'! Canna keep 'er clothes on, neither! This is Lady Jane, 'er says, point-in' to where 'er shouldna...
...comedienne. She doesn't particularly try to be funny; she just can't help it. She is a madcap mimic who at an instant's notice can turn into anything that stands on two, four or 36 legs. She does an imitation of a dinosaur that would bring Alley Oop on the run, and she takes off a pukka colonel so vividly that the onlooker can hear his imaginary wattles flapping. But what Lynn begins by mimicking she ends by understanding; she works inward from the comic gestures to the tragic core of a character...
Then, with a hearty "ally-oop" the ambulance crew tore the sitter from her sitting place and trundled her and the doctor to the hospital...