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...Staff Writer Sarah M. Seltzer can be reached at seltzer@fas.harvard.edu
...Staff writer Sarah M. Seltzer can be reached at sseltzer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Sarah M. Seltzer can be reached at sseltzer@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Sarah M. Seltzer can be reached at sseltzer@fas.harvard.edu
...gags and a man who often dressed as a woman. Suddenly everybody had to have a television--all because a middle-aged comic with manic energy and a desperate need to please was making a fool of himself, live, in America's living rooms. Subtle as a spray of seltzer, Berle dominated the young medium's ratings for years, at his peak winning 80% of the viewing audience. Eventually, TV grew up--anyway, it grew older --and by the mid-'50s Berle's innocent vulgarity had given way to more domestic, less frantic fare. But his ghost still haunts...