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Spunky Air. First Monday in October is intellectual and ideological Pablum seasoned with a few smart Broadway-style gags. What may one say of the two actors in whose presence count less Americans can stir up memories of their own youth? Douglas, 74, is a sly fox of an actor with great skill, and he makes Justice Snow a personable charmer. Jean Arthur, 70, still has the raspy little girl's voice that people remember from 1930s movies and a spunky air of perennial optimism. But the stage has never been her home...
...inch thick fiberboard that separates our kitchens. But we bought the Delac and she glows in the dark and Daniel was sky-high and wandering into our shack chanting, "Fried potatoes, Fried potatoes, Fried onions...," spuming beer down over his chin like a baby gurgling on its pablum (greasily, in big, viscous bubbles), his Coors can outstretched as he flexed to show off his "megalopulous muscles," twittering about the floor like a wind-up toy (skittering into walls ever so lightly and then reversing his direction), telling us about his "Vitamin A" (as in acid) as Gay went...
...neglected house of music literature is adorned with a fresh coat of paint. The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook is the latest example. Out of nowhere comes this slim but precious volume, this musical breath of fresh air that gives readers the same sense of joy an infant feels eating warm pablum on a cold winter morning...
...talking dolphin, is cute, graceful and quite lovely to watch. Since Day of the Dolphin contains no threatening or challenging scene or idea, it might be considered a good family movie. But only for families who feast on pablum...
...truly offensive performer on the popular scene and fill the hour with bad guests. She claims to be a feminist, yet permits such racist chauvinist crap as Flip Wilson's Geraldine act to take place on her show. Feminism would be far better off without such plasticized, consumer-oriented pablum as this...