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Anything is possible in show business, however. Cross is close to signing a deal with a major television-production company. And DeLaria says, "This guy came up to me and said he was with ((Fred)) Silverman's people, and he said, 'You know, we're thinking of redoing C.P.O. Sharkey...
...Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera. "An affordable musical" by Dave Reiser and Jack Sharkey (authors of Jekyll Hydes Again! and "Not the Count of Monte Cristo?!"), this musical farce is designed for threadbare theater groups with a taste for tastelessness. "Welcome to the opera!" the opening number announces. "Where gals with lung disease/ Can hit high Cs with ease!/ Their doom is sure to please/ The connoisseur...
Starting in 1907, Bellows made a small series of boxing pictures, of which the most gripping is Stag at Sharkey's (1909), an image of orgiastic energy, the boxers' faces reduced to speed blurs of bloody paint, the bodies starkly gleaming under the carbide lights, locked in a triangle, the strain of muscles so assimilated into the physical life of the paintstrokes that the pigment runs over their contours. Bellows' contemporaries found such images "Hogarthian," but the closer ancestor of Stag at Sharkey's is late Goya. In particular the frieze of spectators' heads, yelling, gaping, sly, stupefied, brings...
...Yale--Humphrey, Vishio; Harvard--Downing (3), Berkery (2), Hansen (2). A: Harvard--Berkery. S: Yale--Sharkey (10); Harvard--Leary...
Newer cable outlets are being forced to scrounge ever deeper in the vaults for fresh oldies. Comedy Central, the all-comedy cable network, has resurrected C.P.O. Sharkey, a dog from the mid-'70s starring Don Rickles. Nostalgia Television, a six-year-old network aimed at the "mature" audience, has unearthed such forgotten chestnuts as Date with the Angels, a short-lived '50s sitcom starring Betty White, and The Dennis O'Keefe Show, a one-season wonder from...