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...battalion. "We've reached a real problem with the literacy rate of young Americans. We worry about the attention spans on 25-second [television] ads." One 1981 Army brochure touts the various branches of the service with full-color photos, drawings and watercolors. The accompanying text reads like a comic book...
GoBots first appeared in Japan last year but did not test well in the U.S. at first. Then marketers packaged comic-book-style stories of good vs. evil featuring their violence-prone figures, and the GoBots and other robots took off into hyperspace...
Compare Rollins with Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor, and the new ghettoizing of black stars is immediately apparent. Murphy and Pryor have parlayed their popularity into lucrative deals with the major studios, but they are basically comics: hip new models of the vaudeville Negro. "I don't think the country is ready for black leading men," Murphy declares. "White guys won't accept their ladies' going nuts over a black actor." Notes Playwright Fuller: "Americans trust black people when we sing, dance or tell jokes. It's when we stop laughing that people get itchy...
...long ago he might have had a sticker plastered over his mouth that read PARENTAL GUIDANCE REQUIRED, but Richard Pryor, 43, the incendiary comic who in 1980 turned himself into a human torch while free-basing cocaine, is now host of a children's show called Pryor's Place, which debuts on CBS this Saturday morning. In a fantasy urban setting, the comedian will cavort with the Krofft puppets, tell stories about his own childhood, and impersonate several characters, including Chills, a hip saxophone player, and Carlotta, a savvy fortuneteller. The weekly half-hour may be a long...
...need more comic relief." Axelrod went on. "I think a lot of people come here and have their aspirations shattered by the seriousness and the intellectual demands. I want more freedom of speech, action and thought...