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...been left by Manchester's opening act, the Unknown Comic, Murray Langston, a man who has taken a simple brown bag and filled it with a career. Before leaving the stage, Langston, whose bizarre brand of comedy was too wild, too earthy and too intense for this tie-and-tux crowd, had made one last attempt at a joke. Holding the glass high, he shattered it in his hand. "Is it live," he chortled, satirizing Manchester's TV commercials, "or is it Memorex?" Having elicited nothing more than a few titters, Langston must have wondered the same thing about...
...this As You Like It stems from the very overflow of energy that makes each individual characterization so effective. The ART troupe comes to the Loeb fresh from an outdoor staging of the show at City Plaza, and its dimensions haven't been properly scaled down. Some carefully planned comic routines fail to connect because of gestures that are too large, movements too exaggerated, timing off. When Rosalind decides to flee the court with her confidante, the women give a victory whoop that flies into the air and then falls with a clunk on the stage...
...success. Making fun of the playwright is a dangerous game for directors; it runs the risk of suggesting to audiences that there's no value to the play, and no point in staging it. But Belgrader manages to ridicule Shakespeare's implements with the same stroke that affirms his comic genius...
...Everyone knows that TV commercials are better than the shows," says Comic Steve Martin. So, Martin has taped All Commercials, an NBC special set to air in September. Among the products he plugs: Truman Capote jeans, the Just a Second Honey bra and Mount St. Helens laxative. But his favorite bit is a tribute to Morris the Cat, finicky flack for feline food. "He and I were quite close. His death came as a real shock," Martin confides. "I want to show the real Morris, the private Morris." For this, he boasts, he is purrfect: "People who knew...
DIVORCED. Tuesday Weld, 37, perennial Hollywood starlet of the 1960s who survived to become a creditable actress (Play It as It Lays, Who'll Stop the Rain); and Dudley Moore, 45, diminutive comic actor who helped create the satirical revues Beyond the Fringe and Good Evening and pursued Bo Derek in "10 "; after five years of marriage, one son, Patrick...