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...assembling a kook's tour of characters and situations for your episodic comedy about American life on wheels, you get: cute hookers, more bickering couples than a Bronx highrise, a town that paints itself pink, an elephant on water skis, and some funny car crashes. In a large, bland cast (Beau Bridges, William Devane, Teri Garr, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), only Beverly D'Angelo stands out as an overripe woman who can't say no, and for whom "the International House of Pancakes is the one consistent thing in my life." The rest of this Freeway...
...explication of the Salic Law (somewhat abridged), Paul Craig correctly avoids turning his Archbishop into a comic Polonius (one mistake in the Olivier film), but is too bland later doubling as Captain Gower. Pirie Macdonald '54 ably doubles as the conspiring Scroop and the Scottish officer Jamy. And Robert Stattel is a commendably solid Duke of Exeter...
...makes the audience feel like laughing, and that, as any comedian will tell you, is half the ballgame right there. Jack Benny could send his audience into hysterics with one squeaky note on his violin. Johnny Carson can turn a bad joke into a kneeslapper with a single bland stare, and Murray can send up lines so well by just standing there with that bemused, half-dopey smile on his face, that by the time he utters a word, the audience is ready to laugh at whatever he says...
...timing of Butler's comments delighted Wildmon. "I think it was a very good statement from a socially responsible organization," he said. Bland and self-effacing, Wildmon, 43, took up his crusade when he could not find what he thought were good programs for his own family. "Everything on the air has a message," he explains. "TV represents behavior modification, or monkey-see, monkey-do. A child sees it and it leaves an impression. But consideration, decency, honesty, fidelity, hard work-those values aren't there. If I disagree with the values that are there...
...past 20 months, Rosen has been living at Kalmar Lasarett, a community hospital; Sweden's socialized health-care system picks up the tab for treatment and meals. But fed up with bland food, she has been taking short trips outside: "I leave after lunch and manage to hit three or four restaurants before I feel satisfied. Then I come back to a new hospital tray for dinner." She would like to leave the hospital and cook for herself, but the big problem is money. Rosen lives on a pension of $7,680 a year, and government regulations allow only...