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...KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation-sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, shed tears over it, spoof it and sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs...
William Randolph Hirsch is really three staffers on Monocle, a New York humor magazine-Marvin Kitman, Victor Navasky and Richard Lingeman. Their book combines a spoof of self-help manuals on how to be thin, agile and potent with a parody of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which after all is also a self-help book. In the Hirsch version of Chinese ideology, eating is as much a bourgeois deviation as making love. The book advances the remarkable theory that "under Communism, sex is work. Under capitalism, work...
...HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING is a comedy hit by Robert Anderson (Tea and Sympathy) that deals with a common human preoccupation-sex. In four playlets, Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard make faces at sex, or shed tears over it, spoof it or sneer at it. The audience, for the most part, just laughs...
...STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a spooky spoof, Allen & Co. suggest that movie musicals be based on oldtime horror films. Tim Conway, Lou Rawls, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara help Steve with the ghost songs...
...Only Live Twice. Ever since his cinema debut in 1962, James Bond has been the subject of cult and caricature, spoof and spectacular. Now, five films later, he is the victim of the same misfortune that once befell Frankenstein: there have been so many flamboyant imitations that the original looks like a copy...