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Between all-too-predictable guests last week (Joan Collins, Erik Estrada), Thicke unveiled his regular troupe of sketch performers. Except for the razor-sharp cynicism of angular Richard Belzer and the loudly self-absorbed improvisations of Gilbert Gottfried, they came off as Not-Ready-Even-for-Late-Night Players. More promising are such regular features as Pipeline, a takeoff of Nightline, which last week examined a prison that had gone condo, and Flick of the Night, which overdubs old film clips with irreverent irrelevancies. The bookings may also improve. Already taped are interviews with less overexposed celebs like Lana Turner...
...Frederick Painton. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Roland Flamini with Kohl
...permission to emigrate, the remaining six voluntarily left the embassy basement. Upon their arrival in Vienna last week, the Pentecostals expressed joy at being in the West but regret that tens of thousands of fellow believers were still waiting back home for exit visas. -By John Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow
...thrill of a lifetime," proclaimed Vice President George Bush, 59, after he and five-time Wimbledon Winner Bjorn Borg, 27, came from behind in a friendly but hard-fought game of doubles at Stockholm's Royal Tennis Hall to defeat Sweden's former Davis Cup Star Jan-Erik Lundquist, 46, and the country's Ambassador to Washington, Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 60, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. The winning team's post-mort opinions of each other's play reflected the differing strengths of their diplomatic strokes. "I think he played very well," said Borg...
...Kenneth W. Banta. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow