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...Richter was a lot more than sofa ballast. Where other talk-show sidekicks once grinned and fed the boss straight lines, the acerbic Richter was an integral, almost equal partner, doing comedy bits and zany reporting segments on the road. Over seven years, he took that most emasculating of show-biz roles and gave it something like dignity. (Even if he once had to streak onto the Today show set in flesh-colored underwear as a prank for Late Night.) "Sometimes we'd have an older guest who wasn't too familiar with the show," remembers O'Brien...
...ELAINE STRITCH AT LIBERTY Do we really need another one-woman show in which a crusty Broadway trouper recounts her show-biz war stories while belting out Sondheim and Berlin standards? Yes, if she has enlisted as artful a collaborator as New Yorker theater critic John Lahr and can still perform, at age 76, with as much energy, wit and seen-it-all gumption as Elaine Stritch...
...especially now that stretch fabrics have been mainstreamed. The campy sensation of '70s and early '80s TV is both star and co-producer of Bravo, her own show in Las Vegas, featuring flamenco, merengue, salsa and plenty of clean "cuchi-cuchi" for the entire family. Asked if she was sick of her signature phrase, she burbled, "Are you kidding? Cuchi-cuchi has shown me the way to the bank!" On her show-biz hiatus she moved with her Swedish husband to Hawaii to raise their son--now 19 and a student at UCLA (imagine those family weekends...
...said. "Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie." That self-flagellation comes on the heels of remarks by JFK director OLIVER STONE in which he called the attacks a "revolt" against "order" of the sort created by show-biz conglomerates that "have control of the world." Historical first: auteurs with low self-esteem...
...that Rat Race avoids piety entirely. It ends with a near orgy of unpersuasive show-biz sentimentality. But up till then it's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote through--come to think of it--a similarly bleak and comically perilous American landscape...