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Randall and Klugman thus spend the first day of work on every episode repairing the writing. When one script, in the latest TV mode, made a cynical and token pass at the nation's racial troubles, the stars gagged and turned the circumstance into parody: the black athlete became a token Eskimo. Randall and Klugman also lose battles. They were embarrassed by the third segment in the series, which lost bits of subtle humor to give more time to a leering portrayal of Oscar hustling an airline stewardess. The actors condemn the use of canned laughter as "an atrocity...
...week stipend and began attending during the day, taking an accelerated 50 credits a year instead of the usual 30. "I was skeptical about the SEEK program lasting," he says. "I don't believe in white altruism, and I thought it would be just another crumb, a token. At the end of every year there was a rumor that there'd be no more money." He found SEEK counselors basically helpful, though some of them were liberal whites "who were overpermissive," and others were middle-class blacks "who had pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps and were...
Eric Crone exploited the Lions' loose coverage, throwing 10-yard down and outs to Bill Craven and scrambling past Columbia's token rush. Craven, a second string sophomore who should start next week, ran very well and made a great touchdown catch...
...W.C.C. is now guilty of aiding violent groups, the South African Methodist Dimension observed, then that nation's whites "must stand under similar condemnation for implicitly supporting daily acts of violence" against blacks. Nevertheless, the W.C.C.'s token donation of cash lends moral respectability to terrorism. This, in turn, could further erode support for the W.C.C...
Paramount Pop. Barefoot in the Park-the Simon farce about newlyweds in the Manhattan walk-up with the leaky skylight and squeaky mother-in-law-has been transmogrified by Paramount into all-blackness. The premiere was predictable yet sprightly, as the hero (Scoey Mitchlll), a token Negro in a fashionable law firm, was cajoled into moonlighting as a butler at a party, where, naturally, his boss showed up. Offscreen, Scoey has beaten the 13-week jinx in his own way. After hassling all summer, Mitchlll popped a Paramount vice president in the face with just twelve shows finished...