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Wednesday, April 5 SID CAESAR, IMOGENE COCA, CARL REINER, HOWARD MORRIS SPECIAL (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* Stars of the oldtimer "Your Show of Shows" come back to spoof rock 'n' roll groups, the Paris tourist and Italian opera. The Billy Williams Quartet comes with them...
...came the fresh realization that audiences and their attitudes have changed. They are younger and they carry more intellectual clout. Says Karel Reisz, who directed Morgan!: "The literacy gap between the people who are making films and those who are seeing them has narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance as unnatural. There is much less...
Last year a group of freshmen decided that what this University needed was a good five-cent parody of The Advocate. While preparing the projected spoof, the fledgling editors discovered they could assemble enough competent poetry and prose to put out a serious magazine, whence The Island. The editors have consistently demonstrated sound judgement (and laudable enterprise in arranging interviews with W.H. Auden, Howard Nemerov, and Adrienne Rich). Their Winter issue is predictably excellent...
...Terror." In 1953, Vida Hope, director of the London musical hit, The Boy Friend-a campy spoof of the 1920s-offered Julie the lead in the Broadway company. "My first thought," she remembers, "was 'Oh, good Christ, the idea of leaving my home and family'-I couldn't do it." But she tried the idea on "my Dad-my real Dad-the wisest and dearest man I knew." Said Dad: Take it. On the night of the New York opening, Julie turned 19-and the critics turned out the superlatives. She was a star...
Eyeball to Eyeball. Ally's returning ads partly spoof those for Avis by Doyle Dane, partly press Hertz prowess. One television commercial, for instance, shows a "We try harder" balloon deflating slowly while a voice ticks off Hertz's advantages in available cars, widespread locations and electronic reservation service. Another agrees that Avis' "only No. 2" claim is "hard to argue with." Ally, a teaching fellow in English at the University of Michigan before he turned to ad writing, proudly produced another that asks: "No. 2 says he tries harder. Than...