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...Chaplin's dearest friend; when sober, has him thrown out of the house. A new gag: Chaplin trying to light his cigar but succeeding only in lighting the cigar which another character is waving airily before his face. As in all Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...
...second-string critic crazy with hatred for the first-string. "Perhaps he's dead at last, or trapped in a lift somewhere or succumbed to amnesia, wandering the land with his turn-ups stuffed with ticket stubs," he muses. Birdboot is interested only in ogling young starlets and keeping smut out of the theatre. Fulfilling what must be every playwright's ultimate fantasy, Stoppard uses the self-centered antics of these two to mock the whole business of theatre criticism viciously. In the process, he produces an extremely funny play...
...Manhattan wheatfield has created its own environment. Says Denes: "We have praying mantises, spiders that change color to resemble the wheat-Day-Glo yellow and brown-fireflies and a sweet country smell." They also have a harvest of problems. The wheat contracted a blight called wheat smut, plus mildew from the early summer rains. John Ameroso, a Cornell University agronomist who is Denes' horticultural adviser, says the crop is "distressed" and must be harvested early...
...part of an FBI sting operation from 1977 until 1980, Livingston used the alias "Pat Salamone" while masquerading as a Miami pornography distributor. He hobnobbed with gangsters, buying their smut, counterfeit Hollywood films and even 50 submachine guns. The sting ended in 54 arrests, but for Livingston the charade had become muddled with reality. He kept bank accounts in his pseudonym and introduced himself regularly as Pat Salamone. According to Fred Schwartz, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the sting defendants, Livingston has "psychiatric problems that make it difficult for him to distinguish between his real identity and his undercover identity...
...favorite subjects included nuclear war ("Who's Next?" about the arms race, and "We Will All Go Together When We Go,") personal degeneracy ("SMUT" and "The Masochism Tango") and human ineptitude in all its inglorious splendor. At the root of all Lehrer humor seemed to be the assumption that things could get better if only people stopped screwing up. He looked not for malevolence but rather for benign stupidity--not for evil but for incompetence...