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...bestselling single Convoy) and Actor Kris Kristofferson share the same handle: "Rubber Duck." Kristofferson's, however, is strictly for the movies. As a rough-talking trucker in Convoy, Sam Peckinpah's new film, inspired by McCall's record, Kristofferson leads 100 fellow truckers in a madcap chase -with 20 or so police cars in pursuit. Up in the cab with "Rubber Duck" is his new girl, played by Actress Ali MacGraw, who is making her first movie since The Getaway in 1973. The longhaired Cliffie of Love Story even got a special hairdo for the film...
...Chevy Chase, the road to success has been paved with gold banana peels. As one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players on NBC'S Saturday Night Live, Chase stumbled to stardom with his pratfall impressions of President Ford, and NBC gave him a $2 million-plus contract to create and star in three of his own TV specials. The Chevy Chase Show, which airs this week (May 5,10:00 p.m. E.D.T.), is a series of quick-cut sketches devoted to TV itself...
...Chase shows a cheeky sense of the medium's absurdities and a fearless inclination to bite the hand that bred him. With help from Comedian Tim Conway, a few famous jocks, some dancing poodles and "$12,500 worth of extras," Chase takes puckish potshots at TV sports coverage, presidential press conferences, variety and game shows and, of course, advertising. At times, the old Saturday Night wit is in top form. In a takeoff on Let's Make a Deal, one hyperexcited contestant trades a husband, children and an Arizona home for what's behind the door...
Though he did some of his own writing and prides himself on it, Chase's best comedy is visual. He can inspire laughs with a lubricious wink or a self-assured smirk, and his patented tumbles are the best since those in silent movies. One of the program's high points is a put-on of the Hertz Rent-A-Car ad featuring high-stepping Football Star O.J. Simpson. Low-stepping Chevy looks like a disintegrating Tinkertoy, ricocheting through a crowded air terminal on his way to the parking...
...show does not always move with the same skill as its star. Chase's long opening monologue proceeds from the disingenuous assumption that no one has heard of him-and does not recover from it. Despite moments of squirrelly inspiration, a few skits are silliness rather than satire. And for some viewers, there will be too many Chase scenes and not enough other faces. This time the mistakes will probably be forgiven. After all, the path to prime time may have been a little more slippery than Chevy realized...