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...Topper, Friday and Sunday...
...Topper. A couple of decadent ghosts (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett-- who is disqustingly cutesie here) try to loosen up a stodgy and henpecked banker (Roland Young, well-cast). We are supposed to sympathize with the decadent ones and think that they've found the only way to live: the only trouble is that their idea of living is more than having harmless drunken fun--they're selfish and cruel and irresponsible throughout. This is a thirties high society movie that you just can't pardon. It isn't even very witty. With Billie Burke, the Good Witch...
...City. Naturally, since her last name is Morgenstern, Rhoda has a Jewish mother (Nancy Walker) who is a classic yenta. "So how come you're not wearing a bra?" she says to her returning daughter. "Ma, I'm 33 years old." "All the more reason," comes the topper. As a character, Rhoda's ma may be predictable, but good, realistic, almost earthy comedy writing on television is not. Neither is the show's third major character, Rhoda's younger sister Brenda (Julie Kavner). She is sleepy-voiced, sad-eyed and overweight from trying...
...following are now members of the Committee Topper Carew. Fellow in Urban Studies at MIT. Dun Gifford, Member of the Committee of Concerned Alumni. John Kain Professor of Economics. Martha Lawrence of the Neighborhood Ten Association and Frank Michelman Professor...
Died. Leo G. Carroll, 80, British-born actor most familiar to television audiences as the urbane banker in the Topper series and the poker-faced spy master in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; of cancer; in Hollywood. A shy man who regarded acting as therapy for his diffidence, Carroll enjoyed steady employment in hundreds of plays (Angel Street, The Late George Apley), scores of films (Spellbound, the 1939 Wuthering Heights) and frequent TV appearances, in a career that lasted more than half a century...