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...line of TV kids' comedy that stretched from Pinky Lee and Kukla and Fran and Ollie in the early '50s to Pee-wee Herman in the '80s - and which is all but extinct today - Sales was the sweetest and goofiest performer. Outfitted in a sweater and bow tie, his elastic features sporting a nonstop smile, as if he were laughing at his last or next joke, Sales was a Mr. Rogers for kids who didn't watch PBS. Yet there was educational value to his work. Dipping deep into the stock of humor that had sustained stand-up comics from...
...strange genre conventions in movies - that the rich girl will fall in love with the poor boy, or that people will choose to express themselves by bursting into song - surely the goofiest is the one at the heart of the traditional Western: that the good guy will be the best shot. Does that make any sense? Surely the villain will have had more practice, and with more live targets. Surely he will not wait for a sporting opportunity to murder. Yet there he is, at the wrong end of Main Street, about to be perforated by the unerring trajectory...
Threshold is easily the goofiest of the trio yet occasionally the most entertaining. It has quirky humor but turns into CSI: The Fourth Dimension as the team chases sailors cum aliens. More disturbing is how blithely it notes that the team members are draftees, serving on pain of jail. Later, a government agent, bringing in a man suspected of being an alien, casually conks the guy's head against a car hood as he demands his rights. With friends like these, who needs aliens...
...orotund majesty of British thesping. Stewart and McKellen give heft to their respective patriarch and pariah. They make each debate on the shaky future of mankind sound as if it were taking place in the House of Lords--even if they are both forced to sport the goofiest headgear in fantasy-film history...
...Photo Essay: Fab Fourtraits In a series of famous and not-so-famous Beatles portraits, TIME.com takes a look at the Fab Four in some of their goofiest moments...