Word: vaudevilleans
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...this way, his vaudevillean scenes of suburbia are the ultimate self-portraits, their bright exteriors hinting at shadowy, unknowable lives that the viewer can only guess at. In Arkley's case it was a long-term heroin addiction, which finally claimed his life. But his surviving work asks us to leave our final judgment open, which is what distinguishes him from that more cynical chronicler of the everyday, John Brack. Instead, we are left with a glimmer of mirth, irony perhaps, but not least of all affection for what takes place behind the masquerade of suburban life...
There was the standard "Lucy wants to be in show biz." episode, in which she would finagle her way into husband Ricky Ricardo's act at the Tropicana nightclub. The writers wrote half an episode of actual sitcom dialogue and left the rest up to the Vaudevillean song and dance talents of Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel. From The Dick Van Dyke Show to the Cosby Show to The Brady Bunch, the "cast puts on a show" episode has become a standard...
Died. Frank Morgan (real name: Francis Philip Wuppermannf), 59, veteran cinemactor; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. A onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at his specialty: the ineffectual, fatuous old party who was alternately a garrulous liar and a gabby lecher...
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