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...carpenters, grips, security men, sound technicians and other behind-the-scenes retirees outnumber the luminaries, but the list of recognizable retirees is not as brief as one might expect, given the salaries in the business they have left behind. Mary Astor is here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen (a director whose credits...
...laughter splatters the debate. The gibes are mostly among friends. "What I truly value about the circuit," says Smith, "is meeting the different people." A quarter of the competitors are women (although only one will finish near the top here). Are there romantic gambols? "What?" asks an incredulous Peter Shearer of Princeton. "You think I just do this for the logic...
Surprisingly, the most successful production was the Hindemith. News of the Day is a Brechtian satire from the '20s about an ordinary couple (Soprano Mary Shearer and Baritone William Workman) whose divorce makes worldwide headlines. It's not half the opera that Hindemith's great Mathis der Maler-a work that really deserves revival-is, but Lou Galterio's madcap staging made it lively and Bruce Ferden's energetic conducting kept the evening humming. No amount of stage magic by Director Bliss Hebert, however, could save The Rake's Progress, the most depressing waste...
...Saturday Night Live. It took over TV years ago-in 1975, when S.N.L. hit the air and became a focal point for the new comedy. With success came healthy midnight ratings for NBC, and with the ratings came the inevitable imitation, ABC's Fridays. S.N.L. Alumnus Harry Shearer calls Fridays "the Cloneheads"; but when the show was in direct competition with the Tonight Show, it frequently drew more viewers than Johnny Carson and forced NBC to produce its own late-Friday comedy series, SCTV Network/90, featuring the cast of yet another spoof show, the syndicated SCTV. Somebody out there...
...post-funny comedy. Says Brooks, who was born Albert Einstein, son of the dialect comedian Parkyakarkus: "Life is so bizarre anyway, the slightest twist can make it really funny." Brooks' twist is so slight, so deft, that many may not get the joke. In 1975 he and Harry Shearer wrote and produced A Star Is Bought, a record album ostensibly designed to "sell" Albert Brooks to various radio audiences. There was a patriotic monologue for country stations, a novelty record for the Top-40 market, a vocal version of Bolero, a Jack Benny-type radio show for the nostalgia...