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...already hit San Francisco. For 44 years, the little town of Brisbane has served as San Francisco's major dump; now it has won a court order that may soon stop at the town line all trucks carrying garbage. "What," asked San Francisco's Mayor Jack Shelley in exasperation, "can we do with it? Shoot it to the moon...
...COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Thirteen first-ranking comedy stars bring back the routines that made them famous. Bob Newhart reverts to his hilarious role as "The Driving Instructor," Shelley Berman repeats "Is Your Mommy Home?" and Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks revive their "2,000-Year-Old Man." Phyllis Diller, to absolutely no one's surprise, just does what comes naturally...
Three dishes are set before him. One is a rich man hunter (Shelley Fabares) who offers him $5,000 to make beautiful music for her alone. Another is a lady sociologist (Diane McBain) who wants to interview him in depth, just to prove that her "analysis of the mating motive is right on the button." Still another (Deborah Walley) is a lady instrumentalist who offers him a mean rhythm section and something that in her wide Midwestern accent sounds like "goremay...
...witty, always literate and frequently laced with Jewish humor, but one can never be sure whether he is spoofing the language of pop-psych or employing it. He is not earthy enough to be bawdy, so his scenes and situations register as leeringly risqué rather than forthrightly bold. Shelley Winters and Harry Towb do unerringly professional acting jobs, but Bellow has yet to learn that language is not the master of the stage but simply a fuse to ignite dramatic action...
Glue Poisoning. In format, Joan Rivers owes much to the likes of Shelley Berman and Woody Allen, but her style and material, to say nothing of her femininity, make her something special. Snapping out her lines, bobbing and weaving around the stage like a pug in the last throes of brain damage, she is an unindexed handbook on how to be neurotic about practically everything...