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Randall and Klugman thus spend the first day of work on every episode repairing the writing. When one script, in the latest TV mode, made a cynical and token pass at the nation's racial troubles, the stars gagged and turned the circumstance into parody: the black athlete became a token Eskimo. Randall and Klugman also lose battles. They were embarrassed by the third segment in the series, which lost bits of subtle humor to give more time to a leering portrayal of Oscar hustling an airline stewardess. The actors condemn the use of canned laughter as "an atrocity...
...only thing worse than an antiwar play is war. The current mode is for such plays to be written by laughing Cassandras, doomsday seers with quips on their lips. A couple of seasons ago there was Joseph Heller's We Bombed in New Haven; now there is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Happy Birthday, Wanda June. There is a strong temptation to say "Catch-23, please skiddoo...
...been several generations of poets, in fact, and now people almost our own age were publishing poems which sounded very different from those we had grown to respect. Somehow, their world seemed more like ours-transcontinental, underground, and more than real. Instead of offering anxiety as the primary mode or reaction to their surroundings, these poets preferred to take the pressure of reality for granted and find other ways of expressing their dissatisfaction and boredom...
...midi fashions, though it seems an extreme solution. Despite the normally puritanical attitude of most Communist regimes, East Germany's state fashion institute has pronounced its anathema on the midi. "Such creations do not agree with our active style of life," said a spokesman for the Deutsches Mode-Institut, which dictates styles to East German couturiers. "The main characteristics of our fashion are: young, optimistic and purposeful...
Hollywood's professional goody-goody, Doris Day, got caught by the Internal Revenue Service in a nono. Seems that between 1953 and 1957, when the freckle-faced, apple pie a la mode actress was peaking at the box office, she and her late husband, Producer Martin Melcher, were making false business-deal claims on their income tax returns. The U.S. tax court ruled last week that the revenuers had been fooled out of more than...