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...close behind. Both ABC and CBS have new medical hours: The Lazarus Syndrome (starring Louis Gossett Jr.) and Trapper John, M.D. (a M* A* S* H spin-off starring Pernell Roberts and set 28 years after the Korean War). ABC's sitcom The Associates, from the creators of Taxi, takes place in a Wall Street law firm. Other new sitcoms are built around fatherless families, in imitation of CBS's long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time. Shirley Jones, years ago a single mom in The Partridge Family, will do it again...
...when the owner is not using it. "That's better than making $350 or $400 on the books," he boasts. The cab owner is equally pleased since he pays no taxes on the money that Eddie gives him to "hire the horse," that is, use the taxi...
...most memorable portrayals in recent films were of twelve-year-old prostitutes, and they were played by girls who really were twelve?Brooke Shields in Louis Malle's misty legend of 1917 New Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi Driver. Each movie caused a mild outcry, but the general reaction was nervous acceptance. The phenomenon they dealt with was real enough; as Malle took to pointing out, you can hire a twelve-year-old whore any night on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue...
Kaufman's most familiar incarnation is also his most comforting, a benign extension of Foreign Man tailored for situation comedy and appearing weekly, under the name Latka Gravas, on ABC's smash sitcom Taxi. But Latka fans who sought out Kaufman at his frequent unscheduled appearances at comedy clubs or who checked out his recent concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall got something of a shock. Lovable Latka is there all right, but reduced to supporting status; his cute malapropisms ("America is a tough town") are cut entirely; only his accent, and the loony-tune vocabulary, remain...
...abrasive small-timer bombing at the London Palladium, Tony is the dark side of every comic. He is also, to Andy Kaufman, very real. Tony Clifton has a separate agent, gets separate billing, demands-and receives-separate dressing-room facilities when he works with Andy. The producers of Taxi wrote Clifton into the show, had to negotiate a separate contract, then, when he was late for rehearsal three days running, had to fire him. "Don't tell me," said Andy Kaufman. "Tell Tony." Tony showed up, got canned, threw such a fit that studio guards had to carry...