Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon? Making jokes on a TV comedy show with a bunch of weirdos? You bet, as they say, your sweet bippy. Everybody and his myna bird wants to make a cameo appearance on Rowan and Martin's manic Monday night affair. It is the smartest, freshest show on television. President Johnson, Igor Stravinsky and Jean-Paul Sartre have not yet appeared at the stage door, but if they do, they'll just have to get in line behind Marcel Marceau, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, Dick Gregory and Jack Benny. And they will do anything once they...
Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick, Tattered Tom and Ben the Luggage Boy-those brave little ragamuffins of a century ago-have long since petrified into pillars of the community. Sweet were their uses of adversity, as they parlayed pants patches into stock certificates. One hundred years later, their progeny are fine specimens of progressive pediatrics, John Dewey and a high-protein diet. Rags have become the symbol of riches. Youthful outcries against the system, the Establishment and middle-class consuming have become so persistent and eloquent that moral outrage itself threatens to become a lucrative commodity...
...band began playing God Bless America, in a slow and sentimental tempo, led by a sweet trumpet. Now everybody sing, said the aide, and the whole thing swelled up and that funny feeling stirred in people's stomachs...
...Sweet It Is!, nearly all the personnel came out of the tube. Director Jerry Paris is from the Dick Van Dyke show. The writers are out of the Danny Thomas factory. The star, James Garner, was once Maverick. Fair enough; talent has to break in somewhere. But this febrile farce betrays its videosyncrasies wherever it meanders. Garner, a magazine photographer named Grif, finds that he cannot communicate with his hippie dippy son. When the boy decides to tour Europe, his meddle-class mother (Debbie Reynolds) decides to fill the generation gap by taking a house in France for the summer...
...sulks, pop takes up with a willowy tour guide, and mom settles down with a handsome French millionaire. Like all TV sitchcoms, How Sweet It Is! culminates in a stock comedy scene. This time it takes place in an Italian bordello, where too many kooks spoil the brothel...