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...ought to be the top-rated comedy of the year. It will join-perhaps for the last time-two of the prettiest, wittiest comics in Hollywood. Mary can wrap an insult in velvet and put down a lover so gently that he never knows what happened until he wakes up on the sidewalk outside her apartment. Valerie can sketch a character with a series of straight lines and give an audience a solid minute of funny faces-without spilling a grain of makeup or a scintilla of style...
...Richard Meeker. "I used him as a way to get out of the house," Mary confesses. "It was a pathetic reason to get married." Soon after the Meekers' son Richard was born, Mary landed her first dramatic television role. It was Happy Hotpoint all over again. As the velvet-voiced secretary on Richard Diamond, Mary was invisible, save for her hands and legs...
...outside world and delights in its confusion. She doesn't hesitate to draw attention to herself: she once performed Spanish dances; she modeled for artists in New York. She remembers a painter's astonishment when she arrived at his studio early in the morning wearing a red velvet dress; it was a cast-off sent by relatives in Cuba where women didn't stifle themselves. During an experiment with LSD, she blurts: "I want to explain to you why women weep. IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REJOIN THE OCEAN." The ocean mimes this woman's fluidity, color and sensuality...
...material was for the greater part taken off his latest release, Sally Can't Dance, though he also included such standards as "I'm Waiting for the Man," "Heroin," and "Rock and Roll" from his days with The Velvet Underground. Reed's vocals, which were even more Dylanesque than usual, were accompanied by queenly dancing, spasmodic convulsions, and hesitant twirlings of the microphone. Highlighting his stage show was the random interjection of obscenities often followed by the violent felling of the microphone stand, which actually constituted one of the lighter sides of the concert. Whenever the mike stand came crashing...
...less than a year ago, the proof of which was the enlistment of a core of superb studio musicians whose ability was evident on Rock and Roll Animal, a live recording of one of Reed's concert dates at New York's Academy of Music. This divergence from the Velvet's sound presented Reed in a new light, perhaps disappointing to a few Velvet diehards but generally well-received by critics and fans alike. Thus the formula was simple for all future tours: back up Reed's vocal performance with a tight set of musicians that could attract equal amounts...