Word: flips
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...been sharpening the cognitive skills of poor kids by as much as 62%. In its first series, the show reached almost 7,000,000 preschool children every day, five days a week. The Rubber Duckie Song was on the charts for nine weeks. Big Bird became one of Flip Wilson's first guests. Sesame Street won a Peabody Award, three Emmys and two dozen other prizes for excellence. Former Commissioner of Education James E. Allen saluted the show: President Nixon wrote a fan letter. Indeed, despite the show's announcements that it has been brought to you "by the Letter...
JOHN BOORMAN'S Leo the Last also begins interestingly, if not well, with an overlaid rock song alluding to the action and some surreal flip-flopping between polite conversation and snide establishing narration, designed simultaneously to let the audience know the situation and to let it know it's being told deliberately. This low-level reflexiveness doesn't succeed in really challenging the naturalistic tradition...
Beetle Bailey, the comic strip dealing with the vicissitudes of a reluctant draftee, has never raised much of a chuckle from the Army. The official armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes refused to run it from 1954 to 1959 because it took too flip a view of Army brass. Last month Beetle was again banished by the paper's Pacific edition...
...remembered all his own rules as he rendered his version of the discovery of America. Chris warns Isabella, "If I don't discover America, there ain't gonna BE no Ray Charles." Isabella then shrieks in the now-famous falsetto, "Chris gonna FIND Ray Charles." Since then Flip has sharpened and refined his style, which leans primarily on storytelling and body action rather than zingy punch lines. Even with all of the mugging, eye rolling and Negro dialect, Wilson's routines are inoffensive and totally devoid of racial rancor...
...notion that there is any significance in the fact that he is black. "Why does it have to be a question of black and white? I'm a comic, and my thoughts are reflected in what I do. I don't like to talk politics." But Flip tries to be more philosophical about his relationship with his audience. "I give an honest day's work, and I'm well paid for it. The guy who watches, suppose he's way down, or his wife is in the hospital. If I can take him away from...