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Beating the Bottle. Born into a family that cherishes its Confederate past, Battle graduated from Washington and Lee University and then from Memphis State University Law School. A pal of Political Boss Ed Crump's son, he was appointed assistant district attorney of Memphis in 1934, later became one of the city's top criminal lawyers. Over the years, he had to lick a drinking problem; today he gives talks to Alcoholics Anonymous groups so that others may profit by his example...
Tamara Long, as the slinky heavy, brandishes a flaming Morganitic torch for her Mister Man, and Sally Stark, as Ruby's peroxided pal, belts a note almost as plangent as the great Merman's. The comic delight of the show, though, is Bernadette Peters, whose Ruby can simultaneously sing and dance up a storm that puts all New York (including Queen Mane of Rumania) at her feet. She can also lament her unrequited love with a tear that streaks mascara down her cheek in a lugubrious perfection of timing...
...rise to Governor from small-time proprietor of the Pickrick fried chicken chain ("Happy white folks at my tables, happy nigras in my kitchen"), his successful bid for the presidency in 1973, and his war against Russia, in which he personally exterminates everybody but himself-even his pal, God, whose place he is only too happy to fill...
...their own thing, "but we don't know what our thing is, and even if we did, we wouldn't know how to do it." Complaining that faculty-student relations had become too informal, one coed protested: "I don't want my professor to be a pal...
...hunts down criminals as a kind of blood sport. His boss sends him to Manhattan to extradite a prisoner named Ringerman (Don Stroud), who is in Bellevue recovering from an acid trip. He cons the doctors into releasing him, but Ringerman's girl Linny (Tisha Sterling) and a pal named Pushie sap Coogan as he is about to step on the plane for Arizona, stealing his gun and his prisoner. Coogan then sets out to run Ringerman to ground in an attempt to salvage his personal and professional honor...