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...always with Simon, this is a situation comedy. Mel (Peter Falk) is a 47-year-old Manhattan executive. His corporate ship is sailing the rough seas of red ink, and members of the staff are being thrown overboard. In Act I, Mel has reached the fingernail-nibbling stage. Will he go next? Equally worried colleagues arrive at the office shortly after daybreak: "They're afraid if you get there late," Mel explains, "they'll sell your desk...
Visiting Locusts. In Act II, Mel has not only been fired, but his unanticipated severance pay is a nervous breakdown. His wife Edna (Lee Grant) goes to work, and that bruises his pride further. His psychoanalyst has died, taking $23,000 of Mel's money with him. He has a visitation of locusts-his two sisters, a sister-in-law and his older brother Harry (Vincent Gardenia)-who tell him that the family is determined to provide "X-number of dollars" to assist him. The attempt to agree on what X-number of dollars is in cash supplies...
...mood. Richard Sylbert has devised a marvelous high-rise apartment in full view of-what else?-another highrise. The rent is just as steep, but the fixtures are gimcrack, the partitions are parchment, and the terrace looks like a handy suicide perch. The acoustics are superb. Says a sleepless Mel: "Two-thirty in the morning. I can hear the subway in here better than I can hear it in the subway...
...shoulders and a face that a mirror would wince at in the morning. Lee Grant is tart, perky and warmly sympathetic. Vincent Gardenia is a pillar of righteous, lard and quivers hysterically when he thinks of all the love that was denied him and lavished upon Mel when they were boys...
...staff has just arrived from the Dick Cavett Show. It is even now apparent that an appearance on Electric Company is going to be the chic guest gig of 1971-72, just as a cameo spot on Batman was the kick of the late '60s. Top comics like Mel Brooks, Bob and Ray, Tom Lehrer and Victor Borge have all signed up to do the show...