Word: schulz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearby junkyards), and attempt a hand-to-mouth independent life. An hour's drive north of San Francisco, in apple-growing country near Sebastopol along the Russian River, some 30 to 50 country hippies live on a 31-acre ranch called Morning Star. Their closest neighbor: Cartoonist Charles Schulz, whose Peanuts people are hippie favorites. The ranch is owned by Lew Gottlieb, 43, former arranger, composer and bassist for the folk-singing Limelighters, who has his hippie followers hard at work-rarest of all hippie trips-growing vegetables for the San Francisco Diggers...
...strip has often mimicked and miniaturized the battle of the sexes. In Bringing Up Father, the explosively frustrated, cigar-chewing Jiggs is tamed by the shrew Maggie. In Blondie, the hapless, incompetent Dagwood is forever being put to rights by his cool, frizzy-haired wife. In Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz defined and some what disguised the process by finally reducing the American male to his supposedly intrinsic childishness...
...Cartoonist Charles Schulz has now reversed the field and devoted a set of six Peanuts strips to promoting the measles vaccination drive...
Kaplan has played it completely crooked, milking laughs from every possible source--Charles Schulz, Ballantine beer signs, karate and sumo, and cute animals (it really is a charming cat)--except the text. The lines are raced through in a variety of singsongs. This, combined with the broad accents of the actors and the twisted rhymes of the text, make them nearly unintelligible. The production's only continuity lies in running gags...
...where many comedians got their start, has been hurt by the bare-bosom boom; Manhattan's Blue Angel is defunct; and the Bon Soir, where cerebral comedians once gamboled, now has a noncomic policy. The comic strips, too, are in a generally deplorable state, two notable exceptions being Schulz's Peanuts and Al Capp's Li'l Abner...