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DIED. Goodman Ace, 83, droll doyen of comedy writers who created scripts for Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Bob Newhart, Perry Como and Danny Kaye from the 1940s to the 1960s; in New York City. He wrote, directed and acted in Easy Aces, a popular radio comedy from 1928 to 1945, which featured his wife Jane as a dippy mangier of language ("a ragged individualist," "up at the crank of dawn"). Ace, who always greeted his friends with a joke, asked that his tombstone be inscribed: "No flowers, please. I'm allergic...
Comments--Two. P.C. players and a coach? Well, official team writer Bill Purillo of the Providence Journal points out that the Italian restaurant on Pederal Hill outclass the North End, and what better way to judge Italians than by their cooking? That obviously makes Joe Bertagna the SID for this team, which plays on an outdoor rink near the Rhode Island state capitol...
Comments--No, there's no coach on this team, and when Maine's SID Bob Creteau leaves, there won't be anybody to keep stats, either. That's a shame: because this is a highflying unit that can play with anyone. They sound like hockey players...
Mike Watson played against his dad's team once. The current Harvard captain was a freshman at the time. His father. Sid, was coaching Bowdoin in Brunswick, Maine--a post he had held since 1959. That's a lot of years devoted to hockey, and the thing to know is that the elder Watson does not like to lose. But that...
This is not to say that Little Me is not still funny, but one tends to laugh at it more than with it. In the original, Belle's many lovers and husbands were all played by Sid Caesar in a performance of virtuosic hilarity. Here they are divided between James Coco and Victor Garber. Garber is the rich little rich boy who first stirs Belle's precocious nubility. Coco, a clown in the grand lineage of Bert Lahr, is wonderfully funny throughout, especially as a Teutonic film director with a disconcerting resemblance to Benito Mussolini...