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...Penguin & Joker. Was all this to be taken seriously? By the kids, yes; they will watch anything. The grownups are supposed to see Batman as camp, a sort of tongue-in-chic philosophy of pop culture, which decrees that anything that is really bad must be awfully good. In this case, Batman is so really bad it is terrible...
...Robin, Dozier chose Burt Ward, a 20-year-old water skier whose reading of "Gleeps!" will not be matched in this age, moving one acting teacher to call Batman "a film anthology of things not to do." For arch-villains in subsequent episodes, Dozier has signed Burgess Meredith (The Penguin) and Cesar Romero (The Joker). The talk of the trade is that Frank Sinatra is furious: he wanted to play The Joker...
Wednesday, January 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The second week of this new twice-a-week series features Burgess Meredith as the Penguin -a fine-feathered foe of that dynamic duo, Batman and Robin...
...Melts explores the comic possibilities of sex in Antarctica and coaxes forth little more than a frozen smile. Against rear-projection views of a place that resembles McMurdo Sound, Director Delbert Mann belabors all the hoariest tricks of his trade. Melts has crazy scientists, sex-starved Navymen, a penguin that delivers radiograms, a seal given to voyeurism, and quips that must have been packed away since Admiral Byrd first visited the place. "We're having a heat wave-darned near up to zero...
Segal, author of Political Africa and into Exile, is editor of Africa South and the Penguin African Series. A prominent radical in South Africa, he went into exile in 1960 during the crisis following the shooting of a large group of Africans by government police at Sharpeville...