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...from mobsters, the characters played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon don drag and take refuge in an all-girl band, sharing beds, submerging stereotypes and sending sexual expectations out to sea. Has there been a more subversive ending than when Jerry/Daphne and his millionaire admirer Osgood sail off into uncharted waters? "Uh, I'm a man," Jerry says, ripping off his wig. "Well," Osgood replies, "nobody's perfect...
...Another reason to cherish ?CBS SM?: when Kuralt retired, he was succeeded by a man a year older than he. Osgood was New York City born, bred, schooled (Fordham) and employed (as the mellifluous morning man on WCBS news radio). Yet his bow tie, wry good nature and weakness for writing up a story in helium-light verse marked him as a Kuralt cousin. He joined the CBS network in 1971 and filled a daily 90-sec. slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host...
...trumpet fanfare of German composer Gottfried Reiche?s ?Abblasen? (rendered for the first 25 years by Doc Severinsen, and now by Winton Marsalis) introduces Osgood standing at a 7-ft. sculpture on which are displayed the morning?s chapter headings - the table of contents for this magazine show. Osgood runs though the half-dozen main stories, then reads the news ?for today, February 15th, twenty-oh-four.? The show revels in mild eccentricities; some of the most prominent are Osgood?s bow tie, his occasional flights of doggerel and his persistent disdain for the locution ?two thousand four...
...Osgood is Kuralt as host, Bill Geist, who usually gets the show?s last long slot, is the vagabond Kuralt, with a shorter fuse. A former columnist for the Times, Geist suggests a mix of Kuralt, Joe Mitchell and the ?Daily Show? traveling circus. A copy of the Jack Barth-Ken Smith classic ?Roadside America? in his back pocket, he visits the Museum of Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired...
...wildlife footage - whooping cranes or wild rabbits or the Yukon moose - with no music or narration, just the rush of wind or water and the occasional bird call or bleat. (If the National Geographic Channel had videos, these would be in the top 40.) Having mellowed us out, Osgood signs off with a subtle plug for his daily commentary: ?I?ll see you on the radio...