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...leftist demonstrators of May 1968: Leading the demonstrations were boys under 30 years of age who were imitating their elders of the Popular Front. The difference was that their elders knew all the words to the Internationale, not just the first couplet. It is always comic (or sad, as the case may be) to see so many young people affirm their personal!ties and free themselves from the society of adults by imitating adults...
This is show business? A mime so inept he must describe his gestures to the audience. A grinning, phosphorescent-suited fellow who plays with funny balloon animals. A comic with a bag over his head who does a ventriloquist routine featuring a hand puppet that has a paper bag over its head. A talk-show host who is all smarm and insult jokes. A Carnegie Hall entertainer who shows cartoons, leads sing-alongs and wrestles with women volunteers from the audience. A female comic in Wayne Newton drag who unbuttons her shirt to reveal a forest of chest hair...
McKinney rules his czardom with a hand that would do Iron Man proud. "I don't buy any Archie or war comics," he says. "Those are below me. I don't buy too many D.C. Comics like Superman or Batman--they're geared for kids." Occasionally, his despotism provokes unrest among the Quincy House kulaks. A suggestion book in the library contains the following note, signed "Fidel": "Keep our comic book library up to date with new issues of Sergeant Rock. He only shows up with a new issue sporadically. We need our blood and guts on a regular basis...
...supporting cast works with the same attention to comic detail that enlivened Epstein's baroque production of A Midsummer Night's Dream last year. William McGlinn's mincing music teacher. Thomas Derrah's stuttering judge, Chris Clemenson's lumbering clerk and Albert Duclos' staggering, alcoholic gardener together cover the entire spectrum of sycophancy...
...Live, the visit was less than heavenly. Decked out in priestly threads for a photo story for Attenzione, a magazine for Italian Americans published in New York City, Novello ventured past the Vatican walls for a shot outside L 'Osservatore 's offices. Swiss Guards soon collared the comic cleric and charged him with impersonating a padre. Not until nightfall did police finally absolve Novello and two Attenzione freelancers of their sin and turn them loose. Shrugs Novello: "I hope they have a better sense of humor in Saudi Arabia, where I plan to pose in the Great Mosque...