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...Merlin, the hero is observed just before the Arthurian legend, when the world is a crystalline Stonehenge and miracles are the order of the day. His teacher is a sage (played by Edmund Lyndeck, a seasoned performer). The faun who haunts his dreams (Rebecca Wright) is a comet from American Ballet Theater. And his enemy, the wicked Queen, is Chita Rivera, a blast furnace best remembered from West Side Story. In the classic tradition, gorgon and wise man vie for the magician's soul and the privilege of influencing the unseen Arthur, the once and future king...
...Tinker has thought a lot about programming," notes Paul Klein, the curmudgeonly sage who was an NBC vice president before joining the Playboy Cable Network. "He's very good at that. He should be doing it at NBC. Instead he delegates it to a swami like Brandon Tartikoff [president of NBC Entertainment]." So why was Tinker hired? Says Klein: "His boss at RCA, Thornton Bradshaw, said Tinker has 'bearing.' I think the stockholders might be happier if he was a hunchback with a bad mole, and put them in No. 1. But even if NBC gets there...
...victories (more of those than anyone else); a farmer's son from Arkansas, a wrestler of carnival bears, "the other end" to Don Hutson at Alabama, the other coach to Adolph Rupp at Kentucky, the scourge of Texas A&M, the sage of Alabama, the supreme being of college football. George Blanda, his quarterback at Kentucky 34 years ago, was the first to note the resemblance. "This must be what God looks like," Blanda said. Bryant's face is brown and as rutted as the erosion of a dried-up riverbed. Under his Henry Higgins hat, the fire...
State, Russell Sage...
Perhaps Miss Manners would have done better to limit her advice to the sage guidelines passed to her by her Uncle Henry, the kind of relative who pulls you aside at family gatherings for "talks. "Henry's words were sufficient: "I. Don't. 2. Be sure not to forget to. "The rest is up to individual interpretation...