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...There is life beyond Bart. The scamp was the show's first star; his ripostes ("Eat my shorts") became T-shirt slogans. Bart is still the richest Simpsons character, but the purview has expanded to include all of Springfield, with 50 or so comic figures, from the Kwik-E-Mart's Apu Nahasapeemapetilan to the Kennedyesque Mayor Quimby to Krusty the Clown and his sadistic cartoon cohorts Itchy & Scratchy -- a wonderfully congested cosmos each week...
...After all these years, they can still surprise you. Part of the fun of watching is trying to figure out what the main plot line will be; the first few minutes of any episode are so packed with comic detail that the story could go in any of a dozen directions. This is one show whose writers seem to have too many good ideas...
...admirable sentiment. But the male-female ratio at the event looked much more equitable than on any Peninsula masthead I've seen. And I don't even need to mention the difference between the men who went up to the mike to support a friend and the wannabe comic representing the patriarchy...
...People all around me were usually falling out of their seats with laughter the other evening, so I guess my sense of humor simply doesn't tune into Jackie Mason's comic wavelength...
...that was long ago, before the '60s -- from which all ominous changes can be dated -- rewrote the rules of American gesture. Such previously banal signifiers as handshakes and haircuts, comic books and pop music, became freighted with contentiousness. Soon Steve Martin was introducing politically correct comedy to the smoking debate. "Mind if I smoke?" he imagined someone asking him, then replied, "No. Mind if I fart?" In the '80s, even James Bond felt bad about smoking. Today the habit is excoriated -- antitobacconists depict Joe Camel as a schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean...