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There is an old saying that if you don't like New England weather, wait a week. The same can be said of Ivy League football standings. Since 1970 one game or less has separated the top two teams at the wire. Every season in recent memory the champion has been determined in the final weekend and the title holder has rarely been the preseason favorite...
E.D.T.) Scheduled behind Laverne & Shirley, this Soap spin-off is one of the season's few sure hits. Unfortunately, Writer Susan Harris has not capitalized on her secure ratings position by creating a daring and witty show. Benson is another sitcom dedicated to the tedious proposition that servants and children are smarter than employers or parents. In this case the employer is a moronic Governor (James Noble) who hires black Butler Benson (Robert Guillaume) to run his household and, by inference, his unidentified Eastern state. Except for Benson and the Governor's unspeakably precocious subteen daughter (Missy Gold...
E.D.T.) Laverne herself (Penny Marshall, that is) directed the first episode of this male Laverne & Shirley ripoff. It stars Jim Belushi (John's brother) and Michael Keaton as janitors who go to work for their uncle in a Chicago office building. Both actors appeared in quick flops last season (Who's Watching the Kids?, The Mary Tyler Moore Hour), but Working Stiffs could be their fastest cancellation yet. There are only so many jokes to be made about moving furniture, and none of them is funny...
September also marks the beginning of the TV year for PBS and "Masterpiece Theater." In this two-part series, the season's opener, they share the pleasure of revealing one of France's best-kept secrets: Jean-Paul Sartre is a very funny man. Kean, which he wrote for the Paris stage 25 years ago, is the proof. Loosely based on the life of Britain's great 19th century actor, Edmund Kean, it can only be described as an existential farce, a humorous assault on both head and heart...
...under the patronage of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovitch, Diaghilev opened his first season of dance in Paris. The jaded city was ripe for an invasion of exotica. His company, to the frenzied rhythms of the Polovtsian dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, swept Paris like a Mongol invasion. Next came Scheherazade, with its orgy of writhing dancers, the extraordinary half human, half feline Golden Slave portrayed by Nijinsky, and the unexpected colors of Bakst. That was succeeded by the most famous opening-night brawl in history, when a glittering crowd booed Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Nijinsky...