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...these traditionally maligned groups are among the country's most loved and admired entertainers? Onstage or on the air, the negative qualities that bigots see in these minorities are transformed. Dumb brutality gets alchemized into the grace and strength of black singers and athletes. Rude connivance becomes the capering wit of Jewish comics and writers and composers, their amazing gift for parody and synthesis. Folks who would never care to be near "those people" want to watch them, learn how to walk or talk from them -- be them, at least for that spotlight moment. Maybe it is America...
...popular host of the Oscarcast, Billy Crystal gets hugged by a billion people every March. He is a star, baptized in the mainstream -- partly because of his quickness of wit, partly because he's so darned cute. The particulars of Mr. Saturday Night's plot pay tribute to Crystal's landsleit: to Jerry Lewis (who began, as Buddy does, by lip-synching to Danny Kaye records), to Red Buttons (who had a '50s TV show), to Jackie Mason (who offended Ed Sullivan). To all the Jerrys and Jackies and Buddys...
Young's story is presented in the format of flashbacks about the most memorable episodes in his life. In its most basic form, Mr. Saturday Night chronicles the life and times of a comic whose caustic wit has cost him stardom. The film shows how Buddy has been his own worst enemy, ruining his chances for success and alienating those close...
...that introduces Lunapark, Luna2's excellent debut record, establishes a unique tone--relaxed but urgent, lazy but occasionally frenetic--that persists through 12 songs. The first of those, the endearing "Slide," breaks into a slightly askew half-speed aquatic-guitar trip with a catchy chorus and lyrics of subtle wit. "You can never give/ The finger to the blind," singer-guitarist Dean Wareham sings after an opening guitar solo, "Sometimes I act so stupid/ But you never seem to mind...
...them had access to the book when they went public. But LIVE from Golgotha will nettle many more. The author shrugs it all off: "Christianity is such a silly religion." As for the book's teasingly naughty humor, he washes his hands of other people's want of wit: "Sometimes the wrong word makes exactly the right joke...