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Munching a tasty morsel of union lettuce (thousand island dressing), he pondered the strange twists of fate which had stayed his rag-tag troops from victory and thrust them into ignominious defeat at the hands of The Crime on two previous occasions...
...arch-Archie is Alf Garnett, a spiteful, bitter dockside worker in Till Death Us Do Part, the model for Family. The fathers of Sanford and son are Steptoe and son, on the BBC series of the same name, a pair of cockney rag and bone men who batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe...
...preserved here in reasonable facsimile. Miss Remick, dolled up to look like a prize in a shooting gallery, is calculating and amusing. Attenborough and O'Shea are nothing short of hilarious. With puffy face and popping raisin eyes, Attenborough looks like a hot cross bun impaled on a rag mop as he continually cross-examines the befuddled O'Shea. During an interval in the questioning, Attenborough boasts that it was he who solved the notorious riddle of "the limbless girl killer." "Who'd want to kill a limbless girl?" asks O'Shea sympathetically. "Oh, she wasn...
...ballad adapted from a Civil War legend, reemphasized his wide-ranging skills in vocal interpretation and the historical lines running through so much good country and bluegrass music. The Watson's duets on guitar and banjo were spectacular, as was Doc's classic, lightning-fast playing on "Black Mountain Rag." The flawlessly coordinated performances of father and son produced a sound rich enough to have emanated from half a dozen instruments, while unified and clear enough to have come from a single guitar...
...gamut from Jimmie Rodgers to Tom Paxton to George Gershwin, Doc and Merle infuse Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" with the same honest feeling that they devote to the traditional numbers on which Doc made his start. One of Merle Watson's own compositions. "Interstate Rag," provides a catchy, rhythmic showcase for his agile banjo playing and, again, for his father's mastery of the guitar...