Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the half-hour political spectacular, Howlin' Howard will trade fiscal quips with Robert Reed, a leading actor in Roots and The Brady Bunch. Jarvis will also respond to questions from a live audience. Other members of the tax-cutting cast include former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and U.C.L.A. Economist Neil Jacoby. As relief from all the rhetoric, an animated cartoon will trace the history of the oppressed taxpayer from caveman times to the present. "Most people are not tuned in to political broadcasts," admits Stewart Mollrich, the show's writer. "The idea is to keep...
...Petrarch's annoyed report, presumptuously donned golden spurs when they rode to their visits attended by a servant. Their wives were permitted greater expenditure on clothes than other women, perhaps in recognition of the large fees doctors could command. Not all were learned professors. Boccaccio's Doctor Simon was a proctologist who had a chamber pot painted over his door to indicate his specialty...
...dedicated cineaste--Brackman quit, in search of an entry to show business. He already had some credentials there, too; he wrote the script for Bob Rafelsons King of Marvin Gardens, and, as if all of the above wasn't enough, he also wrote the lyrics for several of Carly Simon's bigger hits...
What about songwriting? Brackman laughs and says the answer depends on how well the songs in King of Hearts are received. He talks about the beginning of his songwriting career: "I met Carly Simon teaching creative writing at a camp called Indian Hill. Carly was the folksinging/campfire counselor... so I just started writing songs for her." Those songs are among her biggest and certainly her most serious--including "Haven't Got Time for the Pain," "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," and, on her latest album, "Let's Make Love for Old Time's Sake...
...Tune for Truth, Simon...