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...Bust out of Cambridge and drop the H-bomb on blind date. LunchDates (Statler Building, Park Square, Downtown Boston; 254-3000) arranges for you to meet someone in a public restaurant without revealing your last name or telephone number. It's sorta like the witness relocation program for the criminally single...
...MARLEYS WERE DEAD." HUH? EBenezer Scrooge (a nicely grave Michael Caine) has two dead partners -- played by Statler and Waldorf, those sour kibitzers from the Muppet Show. Kermit the Frog is Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy is Mrs. C., Gonzo is Charles Dickens . . . so this must be THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL, the first feature from Jim Henson Productions since the founder's death. Director Brian Henson hasn't his dad's genius for comic detail, and the film often sinks into the brown funk of a wake for the passed master. But when Kermit (now voiced by Steve Whitmire) says...
...elderly gentlemen who berated and bedeviled the cast of The Muppet Show from the cheap seats high above the stage were not, as erroneously reported in Beth L. Pinsker's "Lessons From Sesame Street" in the May 21 Crimson, "Waldorf and Mortimer." They were, in fact, named Statler and Waldorf. Shame, shame. Adam Lane...
...look comfortable; it is not easy being Gonzo. Author Finch devotes a little too much space to the human guests who have appeared on the program. Those singers, movie stars, comedians and classical artists are all well and good, but the book belongs to Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Scooter, Statler and Waldorf...
Slightly surprised by their success, exultant women's leaders held a victory press conference at the New York Statler Hotel. Midge Costanza, who in 1978 was forced out of office as Jimmy Carter's liaison to women's groups and minorities because she was too outspoken, deftly turned a Carter line (borrowed from John F. Kennedy) into a barb...