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...took that long?" This was a script built for laughs, not to last. It's less a Petronian satire than a Catskills burlesque, reveling in fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time's Broadway-musical scholar in residence, who played Wintergreen in summer stock a few years back...
...with callers on the air. "Well, Laura, can you believe this price?" asks Circosta of a caller from Sandusky, Ohio, as he displays a unicorn-shaped pendant and earring set, marked down from a "suggested retail" of $35 to $7.75. When callers sign off, Circosta salutes them with a toot from the program's trademark: a rubber-bulbed horn. It may be corny, but the recipe works. HSN's net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 1986 hit $53.4 million, up from $4.9 million during the same period in the previous year...
...lines one weekend earlier this month in Britain. According to an adorably phrased statement released by Downing Street, "the PM takes whatever opportunity he can to promote Britain. The script enabled him to bang the drum for British tourism." And it doesn't hurt that he got to toot his own horn while...
...Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" cried Al Jolson halfway through The Jazz Singer. Jolson's urgent, boastful bray--an ad-libbed intro to his rendition of Toot Toot Tootsie--cut through the opening-night audience at the Warner Theatre near Times Square like an obstetrician's scissors severing the umbilical cord to silent films, for 30 years the dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound...
...Three times a day people would toot their horn or bang something or just yell,” he said. “Given the climate of intimidation, people didn’t want to march in the street and risk getting tear-gassed...