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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SCIENCE CENTER B, Where's Poppa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

Reiner and Mel Brooks have gone on, separately and together, to become two of the most important comic creators in film; Reiner's Where's Poppa? and Brooks' The Producers, with their free wheeling antic absurdity, still show the strong influence of their mutual apprenticeship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rendering to Caesar | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE. In Carl Reiner's antic Where's Poppa? (1970), a football coach from a large Southern university admitted to recruiting his teams by kidnaping nine-year-olds and training them mercilessly until they came of competition age. One longs for the inspired insanity of such a notion during this slack and dreary comedy from Walt Disney studios. The idea here is that the coach of a smalltown college (John Amos) and his cretinous assistant (Tim Conway) stumble on a kind of peroxide Tarzan (Jan-Michael Vincent) and import him from Africa to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

CINEMA 733. The Devils. Thurs.-Fri. 1:10, 5:25, 9:45. Wild Bunch. 3:05, 7:25. Where's Poppa?. Sat.-Sun. 1, 4:30, 8:05. Midnight Cowboy, 2:30, 6, 9:45. Trash, Midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston | 9/28/1972 | See Source »

...visible or audible. The Brubecks are in fact one of the best pop music shows on the road. Their program is essentially a series of casual entrances and exits in which each Brubeck has his moment alone in the spotlight, then mixes it up with the others. That includes Poppa Dave, who could not stand it on the sidelines and now fronts a svelte replica of the old Dave Brubeck Quartet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poppa Dave | 9/11/1972 | See Source »

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