Word: sickniks
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...exposing homosexuality in prison, discussing Lesbianism, and depicting small towns as hopelessly dull (there's nothing to do but visit Woolworth's and the cannon; you get in a cab and the driver turns around and asks you if you know where he can get laid), Lenny was labelled "sicknik" by Time magazine. He had won a cult of followers, but his appeal was by no means universal. And then came the arrests...
Stratford's Richard III is equally unsettling. As Douglas Watson plays him, Richard is monstrously twitchy but uncomplicatedly gleeful, a modern rather than a medieval sicknik, never giving the sense that he really loves evil for its own sake. The company's Much Ado About Nothing, on the other hand, is the best evening for sale at Stratford this summer. Riotous and briskly paced, with leafy sets, garden-party costumes and lighthearted acting, it goes some distance toward being the dish of sherbet that Much Ado should...
...Billboard's bestseller charts, and last week the recording company's flacks were proudly pointing out that numerous radio stations had banned Presidential Press Conference in the national interest. But it is actually only half bad. Some of the jokes are just mad enough for laughter, and Sicknik Sandy Baron does an excellent imitation of President Kennedy's cod-sent voice...
...sort of balanced cousin of the sicknik comedians, Newhart vaguely follows their technique and style, but delivers his material in quiet, well-scrubbed Midwestern inflections that keep things from toppling over the brink of sanity. As a driving instructor, he maintains classroom calm while he sits in the front seat of a car with a lady who goes 75 in her driveway. As an eager 1904 entrepreneur, he tries to start transcontinental passenger service at once by putting a toilet on the Wright brothers' plane. As a stiff-lipped submarine commander, he tells the crew: "I think our firing...
Other shows revert to reruns; "Smiley's" once-a-week vaudeville simply calls back some of its most interesting stars. This week: Sicknik Comedian Shelley Berman, Opera Star Roberta Peters, Ventriloquist Rickie Layne...