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Best joke of the year from a man not previously known as a jokesmith: Gerald Ford's assurance that "Ronald Reagan doesn't dye his hair; he's just prematurely orange...
...this obsession that exegesis saves? God forgive that pun." Cavett was of course show biz obsessed. He met Carrie Nye McGeoy, his future wife, while acting in a New Haven amateur production. After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack Paar as a jokesmith, wrote for Johnny Carson and tried his own nightclub act as a stand-up comic...
...vastly accomplished jokesmith, Abe Burrows is up against tough and lonely competition-himself-and there are some cavities in his comic lines. But the cast fills them handsomely. Besides looking good, Lauren Bacall handles dialogue like a bone-dry martini. Barry Nelson's whole being winces with boyish mock innocence, and Brenda Vaccaro's characterization draws royal flushes from mental blanks...
...scenario was slapped together by TV Jokesmith Carl Reiner (The Dick Van Dyke Show). It handily meets the standards of Producer Ross Hunter (Pillow Talk), who treats every comedy as a sumptuously vulgar fashion show...
Century Silversmith Paul Revere [TIME, Dec. 1] . . . bears to 20th Century Jokesmith Bob Hope...