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...Pentagon supposedly tried to deceive the Soviets with rigged Star Wars tests in the sky, the FBI attempted to fool the KGB on the ground -- sometimes with comic contortions. In his new book, The FBI (Pocket Books), Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, tells of an operation against a Washington-based KGB officer who was trying to recruit a Pentagon employee. As the Soviet official slept, FBI agents stole his car to plant a bug in it. To avoid suspicion, they put an identical car in the official's parking space overnight. They also made sure...
Daddy Dearest, a slightly smarter sitcom about a psychiatrist whose father moves in with him, might be termed Transitional Fox. Casting angst-ridden comic Richard Lewis as the shrink is the sign of a show aiming for a more adult level of relationship comedy. But pairing him with Don Rickles (who barges into his son's group-therapy session to shout racial insults at everybody) puts us squarely back on the Fox buzz...
Take David Cross, for example, the 29-year-old comic from Los Angeles whose version of Ecclesiastes is unfamiliar to most readers of the Bible. Cross's blasphemy and his predilection for overly evocative images ("A great big steaming platter of baby kittens" springs to mind) don't seem suitable for a vehicle on ABC called, say, Cross My Heart. Nor does Lea DeLaria seem quite ready for her own show. She begins her act by announcing, "It's the 1990s and it's hip to be queer and I'm a big dyke." As David Tochterman, vice president...
...young comic is doing a bit about his genitals when a cry comes from the crowd: "Hey! Hey! I'm really getting sick and tired of all this!" An earnest man in shorts runs up to the front of the room. "I'm just sick of all this blaspheming," he says, "all this talking about your genitalia...
Wright sounds spurned and burned. "None of us wanted to see him leave," he said of Letterman. "But the reality is . . . he walked out of our marriage." And so NBC picks a fight with flush CBS over comic ideas that were hackneyed when Letterman started using them; call it banalimony. That surely describes the high-level mud wrestling over De Forest's Melman. "If you have an actor who's a bumbler," asks Manhattan attorney Stanley Rothenberg, "do you prevent him from earning his living after this series is over? Do you say he can't go and bumble elsewhere...